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 her relatives requested their
Parish Priest to administer her the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.
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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