Main news for 8 June 2025

All four Gospels speak of the miraculous multiplication of the loaves, telling of meals for many thousands of people that Jesus arranged as a sign of the coming Kingdom of God. In it there will be no more hostility, hunger, or indifference, and so all people will gather around God's table for a feast. This is exactly what Jesus begins to do, thereby affirming that the Kingdom has come: everyone can come to Him and taste the "bread of life."

Everyone can come, but the closest disciples will be asked for an essential effort of spirit: to understand still more deeply the meaning of these meals, to see in their Teacher not only the herald of the Kingdom, but also its Center, the Anointed One around whom all nations will gather at God's table. Once they have learned His mystery, they must hear strange and frightening words about the approaching trials awaiting Christ and His disciples. The evangelist shows how the disciples gradually walk the path of faith, coming to know their Teacher more and more and taking on an ever greater burden of faith, which does not always speak of joy and victories. He hopes that his readers will also walk this path.