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🗓️ 31 July 2018
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How do you respond when you feel stretched: overwhelmed, in-over-your-head, drowning, not sure you’re up for the task? Jesus reminds us to turn to him. He can make up for our deficiencies, just as he did that day when he fed 5,000 with only five loaves of bread.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
0:17.0 | What do you do when you feel stretched? You feel overwhelmed, you feel like you're in over your head, you're not sure how something's going to work out. |
0:29.0 | Maybe it's a project you're doing at work, or maybe it's something financially, and you're're saying I just don't have the funds for this or |
0:34.8 | maybe you just want to have enough sleep or there's something going on in your family life. |
0:39.8 | If you ever had moments like that, what do you do? I want to take us into a story in |
0:44.8 | Mark's gospel that could really offer us a lot of encouragement a lot of hope but |
0:49.0 | most of all the key direction of where we want to go in those moments when we feel like we're just not going to be able to pull it off. |
0:56.7 | We're just not going to be able to give it our best here. |
0:59.7 | Where do we turn? |
1:01.0 | That's what I want to look at here. |
1:02.0 | And I'm going to share with the |
1:06.2 | school teachers in the diocese of Parramatta in Australia. I've been in Australia this |
1:10.9 | last week and I'm just getting ready to head back into the states |
1:13.8 | and I thought I'd share with all of you some of the themes we looked at in Mark's Gospel together |
1:19.2 | earlier this last week. So first of all I'm going to jump in in Mark chapter 6 |
1:24.3 | versus 30 through 44. That's the scene I'm looking at and it's it's one of those |
1:29.0 | accounts that I'm sure you many of you've heard before it's the story of the multiplication of loaves. Here's what happens. |
1:35.4 | Jesus takes the disciples, it says in chapter six of Mark's Gospel, verse 31, |
1:41.3 | to a lonely place, a lonely place, some translation say a deserted place. |
1:47.1 | The word in Greek really is implying the wilderness. |
1:50.2 | So right there when you hear about Jesus going into the wilderness, going into the deserted place. |
1:55.7 | What do you immediately think of? In the Jewish Old Testament background, you might be thinking of the |
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