We had VBS this past week, too. It was cute, as always!
Father Gary has been telling us about Greek for the last month or so. He probably got a new book; he’s a big reader.
This episode contrasts (not conflicts) with an earlier episode in which Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law, “and immediately she arose and served them.” Perhaps the point is simply that there are different things to do at different times.
I wondered, after reading this article, is there any occurrence in the Gospels of a man serving anyone, other than Jesus’s washing the Apostles’ feet at the Last Supper? Perhaps the multiplication of loaves miracles, after which the Apostles distributed the food to the thousands of attendees, and then collected the leftovers.