Gospel: John
6:52-59
The Jews
quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his Flesh to
eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh
of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever
eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the
last day. For my Flesh is true food, and my Blood is true drink. Whoever eats
my Flesh and drinks my Blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living
Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds
on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from
heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will
live forever.” These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in
Capernaum.
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Reflection:
Are you a
regular Sunday Mass goer or even a daily Mass goer? How do you feel if you fail
to be at Holy Mass? Do you feel that something is lacking in your system of
being? You have this feeling not because you miss a routinary activity.
On the
contrary you have this feeling because you miss to be with Jesus. And you miss
to partake of the Body and Blood of Jesus which (you may not know) is the
source of your every Sunday or daily nourishment.
How many
times have you been to Holy Mass without paying attention to what’s going on
during the celebration? Perhaps countless times already, what do you do after
noticing that your attention was not in the Mass? Do you say sorry to Jesus and
then make it a point to be attentive the next time?
In every
Holy Mass that you attend you should see to it that your full attention is in
the celebration. So that when the part comes that you are about to partake of
His body your focus is centered on what you are about to receive. Which is no
other than the most precious bread in the entire world because you receive the
life giver, Jesus Himself.
Perhaps
you may not believe this now because you are still young, healthy and perhaps
you have money and power. And these temporal things serve as your security
blanket right now. However when the time comes that you are already old and
sickly. You will know that nothing matters anymore except the Bread of life,
Jesus Himself. You will not desire anything except to partake of His Body which
will become the source of your daily nourishment.
Why wait
for that time to come in the future? When you can already desire to be close to
Jesus by faithfully partaking of His Body and Blood now and onwards? Why make the temporal things of this world
your security blanket? When you can make the Body of Christ your security
blanket now? Yes now! – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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