Laetare Sunday John 6
Laetare Sunday John 6:1-15 This is mid-Lent. Time for a spiritual breather/ time to look at where we have come, what we have done through God’s strength, and how to ask ourselves how we can be better Christians through this Lenten season. In England this Sunday is called “mothering Sunday”---this is the Sunday when everyone returns to their home Churches and bring gifts to mother. Sons and daughters bring mother flowers, rich plum cake and do all the housework for her. This Sunday’s gospel is an enduring one from my childhood. Who does not fondly remember the “lad” who had five barley loaves and two small fish, and how Jesus mulitiplied them for the 5,000? As we review this “sign”/ miracle of Jesus today in our own minds, I note two things: 1. Jesus took what the lad had, and multiplied it. Vs. 11 “ and Jesus took the loaves..” These were the loaves of the lad. Whatever pr...