Homily for the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, July 28, 2024
Today’s gospel passage offers us a way out of a lot of the apprehension and restlessness we experience whenever faced with a daunting situation and we tip toward dejection or even mental paralysis. And I am talking about challenges much, much smaller than having to feed a crowd of about five thousand men, without counting women and children. (cf. John 6:1-15) The huge mistake we keep making is as old as the world itself. It is the mistake of confronting serious situations on our own and of assessing them solely considering the resources that we have av