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:
There is
a true story of a woman who was stricken with brain cancer, she was already
given by her doctors two months to live. Being so they requested their Parish Priest
to anoint her with Holy Oil and have her received the Body of Christ.
The
family of the woman requested the priest if he could assign an Extra-Ordinary
Minister of the Holy Communion for regular visit so that she could receive Jesus
every Sunday. To make a long story short the Priest assigned an Extra-Ordinary
Minister to give her Holy Communion every Sunday.
With the
grace of the Lord the two months life that was given her by her doctors
became five years. And her mother would always
tell the Extra-Ordinary Minister that the additional four years and ten months
of her life was a miracle of the Good Lord which she always receives every Sunday.
In our
gospel today, after Jesus mentioned about the bread from heaven that gives life
to the world. The crowd told Him "Lord, give us this bread always."
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not
hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst."
The sick
woman and her mother believed without a single doubt this declaration of Jesus
that He is the Bread of Life. How about you? Do you also believe? – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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