Gospel: January 6, 2026

January 6, 2026 (Tuesday)

Tuesday After Epiphany

Psalter: Week 2 (White)

St. André Bessette, religious

Ps 72:1-2, 3-4, 7-8

Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

1st Reading: 1 John 4:7-10

My dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves, is born of God and knows God.

Those who do not love have not known God, for God is love. How did the love of God appear among us? God sent his only Son into this world, that we might have life, through him.

This is love: not that we loved God, but that, he first loved us and sent his Son, as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Gospel: Mark 6:34-44

Jesus went ashore, he saw a large crowd, and he had compassion on them, for they were like sheep without a

shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.

It was now getting late, so his disciples came to him and said, “This is a lonely place and it is now late. You should send the people away, and let them go to the farms and villages around here, to buy themselves something to eat.”

Jesus replied, “You, yourselves, give them something to eat.” They answered, “If we are to feed them, we need 200 silver coins to go and buy enough bread.” But Jesus said, “You have some loaves; how many? Go and see.” The disciples found out and said, “There are five loaves and two fish.”

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Then he told them to have the people sit down, together in groups, on the green grass. This they did, in groups of hundreds and fifties. And Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish and, raising his eyes to heaven, he pronounced a blessing, broke the loaves, and handed them to his disciples to distribute to the people.

He also divided the two fish among them.

They all ate and everyone had enough. The disciples gathered up what was left, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces of bread and fish. Five thousand men had eaten there.

Reflection:

Jesus walks among us.

It is comforting to hear and be reminded that we have a compassionate and loving God. He not only sees our suffering but also empathizes with it. Like a Good Shepherd, He walks among us, fulfilling humanity’s hunger and thirst for God. May this inspire within us a deeper motivation to draw closer to God, not out of fear but in response to a God who loves us faithfully and without fail.

“My only ambition is to serve God in the most humble tasks.” -Saint Andre Bessette