Roberta leads both Morning and Evening Prayer this week. Today’s Morning Prayer – Roberta considers a passage from Mark’s gospel, chapter 8, verses 1 to 10. This passage describes Jesus’ concern for a large crowd of about four thousand followers, who had gathered to hear him preach; “‘I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way—and some of them have come from a great distance.’” Mark’s gospel tells how Jesus fed all with food to spare, from only seven loaves – ‘the miracle of the seven loaves and the small fishes’.