Feeding –
‘Every one ate and were satisfied’.
A 4th century pilgrim noted
that ‘not far from Capernaum, facing the Sea of Galilee is a well watered land
in which lush grasses grow, where Jesus fed five thousand people with five
loaves of bread and two fish’. Tradition says that the mosaic of the fish and
loaves was set next to a large rock where Jesus stood to bless the meal which
he and his disciples fed to the multitudes. There is no way to verify this, of
course, but that such a story exists says something about the tangible,
experiential ways in which faith is communicated from one generation to the
next. Someone thought it important to commemorate Jesus’ miraculous meal, and
they did so with a rock, then an artistic mosaic, and eventually a church. Jesus
fed thousands in his day, and this church feeds a faith made visible to the
thousands who visit each day.
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