SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #285
And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying: "This is a desert place, and the hour is now passed: send away the multitudes, that going into the towns, they may buy themselves victuals." But Jesus said to them, "They have no need to go: give you them to eat." They answered him: "We have not here, but five loaves, and two fishes." Who said to them: "Bring them hither to me." And when he had commanded the multitude to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes. And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments. (Matt. 14:15-20)
FIGURE OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST: The great miracle of the loaves and fishes is one of the most striking figures of the Blessed Eucharist, in which the Savior of the world nourishes the souls of countless millions of His faithful people.
[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)
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