The Bread from Heaven Broken and Eaten

The Bread from Heaven Broken and Eaten

(Matthew 14: 13-21

Oh bread of life, Oh bread of heaven

Satisfy our hunger and thirst,

Of your Most Holy Body and Blood

Offer everyday at the Altar.

When you saw the hungry crowds,

You took pity on them..

Instead of driving them away,

to villages to buy their own food.

You said to your Apostles,

You give them something to eat

But the Apostles replied,

We have only five loaves of bread and two fish.

How can you feed these many people,

with just five loaves of bread and two fish?

Unlike in the old golden days of Israelites

in the desert God fed them with manna and meat.

But You, O Lord and Savior

After you said, “Bring them to me.”

Taking the five loaves and the two fish

You looked up to heaven, to God who gives.

With your raised hands and eyes to heaven

You said the prayer of blessing the meal

Broke the loaves of bread, except the two fish

You gave them to your Apostles.

The Apostles distributed the broken bread

to the seated crowds on the green grass.

They all ate and all satisfied and filled,

With the Broken Bread and fish.