Today's readings are here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/042012.cfm
The human heart hungers, and in the end, it hungers for God's love. It may not always realize it hungers for God, but it does.
In today's Gospel, Jesus multiplies the loaves and fishes, an act which prefigures the multiplication of his body and blood in the Holy Eucharist. God knows he made our hearts for him, so he offers us himself in the Eucharist; and he offers himself abundantly. When God gives us himself, he gives us all of himself, which is more than we can contain. Our inability to totally take God in is what draws us to, and deepens our love for, him.
May God help us either to back off, or to lay aside, anything to which we look to meet the deepest need in our heart, and that keeps us from fully embracing his loving presence in the Blessed Sacrament.
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