Gospel: John
6:30-35
The crowd
said to Jesus: “What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What
can you do? Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave
them bread from heaven to eat.” So Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to
you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the
true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from
heaven and gives life to the world.”
So they
said to Jesus, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the
bread of life;
whoever
comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.”
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Reflection:
I’ve been
an extra-ordinary minister of the Holy Communion since 1999 and through these
years I’ve brought the Body of Christ to the sick. In fact at present there is
a middle-aged lady whom I regularly visit every week to give her the Body of
Christ.
One
common denominator that I’ve noticed with all of them is they all have an aura
of peace and calmness ever since they received the Body of Christ. Hard to believe
but this is true: Jesus gives them peace, calmness even an extension of their
earthly journey by giving of Himself to them through the Sacrament of Holy
Communion.
Except
for the one that I regularly visit every week right now they all have died
already. They died in peace, they died being nourished by the giver of the
Bread of life, Jesus Himself!
Jesus in
our gospel tells you: I am the Bread of Life (John 6:35). Do you want to prove
this assertion of Jesus? Whenever you attend Holy Mass receive with piety and reverence
the bread of life which is Jesus.
Always do
this whenever you are at Holy Mass and be docile to the will of Jesus for you
and notice the miracle that Jesus will make in your life. Perhaps there would
be change in your behaviour from being arrogant you now will become humble.
Perhaps a miraculous cure from sickness and so on, all of these courtesy of
Jesus the eternal bread of life. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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