“Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect,” Jesus tells us. So this call of Jesus that we should feed the poor, we should feed the hungry, we should visit the sick, we should take care of those in need—that is the dynamic of divinization. I read recently that here in Ireland, where I am just now, there are 250,000 children who are living in poverty. And in the United Kingdom, a member of the G7, there are four million children living in poverty. Fifty percent of all of those children living in poverty belong to minority ethnic groups.(…) The situation now is the same as it was then, at the time when Jesus was facing this hungry crowd. We need to understand what is actually the sign that he is giving us. What is the real miracle that he is working? Not just magic. That would be too easy. For a child, it’s okay to see it like that. But when we read this as adults, we have to involve ourselves in it, with all that we know about the world and about ourselves.
We have to involve ourselves in it
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