Episode 896: Bring them hither to me

They answered him: We have not here, but five loaves, and two fishes. [Matthew 14:17].

Having only five loaves and two fishes is typical of the sad state of many parishes in our day. Right now folk are saying that we need to send the multitudes away, that there are natural ways of caring for their needs. We send them to the psychiatrist for emotional help and to the government for physical relief. We do have spiritual bread to offer folk, although it may be only five loaves and two fishes, but the thing which is lacking is the power of the Lord Jesus. If we only had that power, we wouldn't need to send the multitudes away. We fail to realize that the solutions today are not in government nor in human imaginations but in God. No wonder many of our parishes are powerless.

He said, Bring them hither to me [Matthew 14:18].