Sunday 2 August 2026
Lectio
Divina:*
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Psalm
145(144) |
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Meditatio:
‘And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was
left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full’ (Matt 14:20)
Commentary:
(The miracle of the loaves and feeding of the crowds is to be found in all four gospels - Mark 6:30-44, Luke 9:10-17 and John 6:1-15.).
in his 1932 book An Essay on the Nature and Significance
of Economic Science, Lionel Robbins declared that:
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
This definition was taught to me as a first-year Political Economy student more than fifty years ago. Even then, I was unconvinced that economics was a
