Jesus
said to the crowds: “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw
him, and I will raise him on the last day. It is written in the prophets: They
shall all be taught by God.
Everyone
who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me. Not that anyone has
seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Amen,
amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread
that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living
bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and
the bread that I will give is my Flesh for the life of the world.”
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Reflection:
Are
you afraid to die?
There
are many reasons why many are afraid to die; foremost amongst these reasons is
we are not prepared yet. We still have our own worldly preoccupation that we
must take care of first. But we all know that at a time that we don’t expect, we
have to go and leave this world permanently.
In
today’s gospel Jesus gives us an iron clad protection against our fear of
death. He enjoins us to regularly partake of the living bread that is available
to us during Holy Communion no other than Himself. This is the same bread that
is given to those who are sick and not anymore able to go to church for Holy
Mass.
Why
don’t we try to regularly partake of His Body during Holy Communion? And see
how it will form, change and make us fearless of mortal death. We will not die
anymore if we are with Jesus and we will not fear death anymore if we
reverently partake of Him at Holy Mass during Holy Communion.
Our
marching order therefore is to bring others to Holy Mass. So that they will
also be blessed, nourished and enlightened by the enormous blessing of the Body
of Jesus Christ.
Have
you been able to bring someone to church for Holy Mass so that they too could
partake of the Body of Christ during Holy Communion? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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