Summary: The feeding of the 5000 fits into the Gospel of Matthew at a strategic point. All of the gospels are written in such a way as to highlight each individual part in relation to the others. This story is no different. In this homily Fr Gabriel reaches especially toward the interpretation of the text by St. Hilary of Poitiers (310-367), known as "the Athanasius of the West" to highlight the text's meaning for our age.
