Reflection for May 6 Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter: John 6:30-35

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:

The story is told about a woman who had brain cancer. Her doctors had already given her only two months to live. Because of this, her relatives requested their parish priest to administer the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. 

The woman’s family also asked the priest if he could assign an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion to visit her every Sunday so she could receive Jesus regularly. To make a long story short, the priest assigned an Extraordinary Minister to give her Holy Communion every Sunday. 

By the grace of the Lord, the two months given to her by the doctors became five years. Her mother would always tell the Extraordinary Minister that the additional four years and ten months of her life were a miracle from the Good Lord, whom she received every Sunday. 

In our Gospel today, after Jesus spoke 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." (John 6:34-35) 

The sick woman and her mother believed—without a single doubt—in this declaration of Jesus, that He is the Bread of Life. 

How about you? Do you also believe? – Marino J. Dasmarinas