Sermons

"Beyond Sharing"

Proper 12.B.24
John 6:1-21
The Rev. Melanie McCarley

The story of the “Feeding of the Five Thousand” is one of the best known and well loved miracles found in the Bible—and with good reason. It is the only miracle recorded in all four Gospels. In fact, the symbol of bread and fish is an ancient one, dating back to the earliest days of Christianity—as a symbol both of the Eucharist, and a reminder of this particular miracle—that Jesus took five barley loaves and two fish and fed five thousand hungry people.

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