In those days there was a large crowd again, when they did not have anything to eat, he called together his disciples and said to them: ‘I have pity upon the crowd, because  they have stayed with me three days already, and they do not have anything to eat. And if I send them hungry to their homes, they will faint on the road, and some of them have come from far away.’

And his disciples answered him: ‘How can someone feed these people with bread in a deserted place?’

And he asked them: ‘How many breads do you have?’

And they said ‘Seven’ 

And he commanded the crowd to sit  on the ground. And taking the seven breads, giving thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to serve out again and again, and they served the crowd.

And they had a few small fish. And after he blessed these he told them to serve these too.  And they ate and they were satisfied and they picked up seven baskets of left-over fragments. 

And there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away. 

And immediately when he had got into the boat with his disciples, he went into the region of Dalmanutha. 

Eternal Light, shine into our hearts;
Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil;
Eternal Power, be our support;
Eternal Wisdom, scatter the darkness of our ignorance:
That we may seek your face
with all our heart and mind and soul and strength. Amen.
Alcuin