The miracle of solidarity
Liturgy of August 2, XVIII Sunday of the Ordinary Time
Dear brothers and sisters, God, as the passage from the Gospel of Matthew that we’re going to listen to Sunday August the 2nd relates, in Jesus his Son, who out of compassion for the exhausted crowds, multiplies loaves and fish to feed them, reveals, in a wonderful way, how tender and strong it is His love for humankind. In fact, God is not only concerned with the salvation of the soul, but with the whole person, soul and body. And Jesus by calling the apostles to collaborate with him, makes his Church understand that there are not only the works of spiritual mercy, but also those of corporal ones. In this dark hour of human history in which arrogance, injustice and wars are shaking the world, what an extraordinary "miracle" of solidarity the Church led by Pope Leo is offering to the whole world.