First Reading

Numbers 11:4b-15

15But if it seems to you otherwise, I beg you to put me to death, and so may I find grace in your eyes, lest I be afflicted with such evils.”
Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 80

12But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me. 13And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions. 14If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways, 15I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them. 16The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age. 17And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.
Gospel

Matthew 14:13-21

13When Jesus had heard it, he withdrew from there by boat, to a deserted place by himself. And when the crowds had heard of it, they followed him on foot from the cities. 14And going out, he saw a great multitude, and he took pity on them, and he cured their sick. 15And when evening had arrived, his disciples approached him, saying: “This is a deserted place, and the hour has now passed. Dismiss the crowds, so that, by going into the towns, they may buy food for themselves.” 16But Jesus said to them: “They have no need to go. Give them something to eat yourselves.” 17They answered him, “We have nothing here, except five loaves and two fish.” 18He said to them, “Bring them here to me.” 19And when he had ordered the multitude to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fish, and gazing up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the bread to the disciples, and then the disciples to the multitudes. 20And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up the remnants: twelve baskets full of fragments. 21Now the number of those who ate was five thousand men, besides women and children.