Listen to the Good News with Your Heart.

There was a heavy downpour late Saturday afternoon, so instead of attending mass that day, I opted for the Sunday morning mass.

It was Fr. Rudy, the Filipino priest, who celebrated the mass as he always does on Sunday mornings. The Gospel reading was the very familiar "Multiplication of the loaves of bread." Then, Fr. Rudy said , "There was only one person from a multitude, a boy, who offered his food (five loaves of barley bread and two fish) to be shared with the others. But surely there were others who brought food because the people took a long journey."

It made me thought about the last two posts which I blogged before the mass: Pizza and No Waste Allowed Here.

In "Pizza," I mentioned about the summer picnics of Filipino-Canadians I've attended where there were an abundance of food shared; in No Waste Allowed Here, I talked about useless waste of precious time.

Fr. Rudy also reminded the parishioners how people sometimes fear to share their abundance because they are afraid there might not be enough left for them. And how our being in a First world country such as Canada has given us, the Filipino-Canadians in the parish, more opportunities to share.

Further, the priest said, "when you give, the Father will give you back a hundred fold."

Food, sharing and waste. I thought about farmland left uncultivated. Precious natural resouce which could have been irrigated and planted with crops, to be harvested and shared with others.

What a beautiful Gospel reading and a very timely reminder for me.

The heart speaks out and you must listen with your own heart. You must hear the good news I shouted about.