Once upon a time on a
verdant hillside in Galilee, a little boy's picnic lunch of five loaves and two
fish was transformed by a Word of love into a huge banquet with baskets and
baskets of leftovers. This is a story of the overflowing abundance and the immeasurability of God’s love
and compassion. And as Jesus feeds the multitude with bread and
fish, God's dream of the kingdom is enacted. The reign of God has become a
reality in Christ Jesus. In him heaven is wedded to earth forever, and so a
banquet is definitely called for. God's Promised One is presiding at the banquet in the kingdom, feeding the poor
and lowly with as much as they want. He has invited us to join them.
Photographs by James O'Kane.
