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Mo NguyenSat, Jun 13 at 5:04 PM
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From: Mo Nguyen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 8:03 PM
Subject: Bài Chia Sẻ của Sư Huynh Viện Sĩ Kinh Thánh Brendan Byrne, SJ
To: Nguyen Dinh <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
THE MOST HOLY BODY & BLOOD OF CHRIST
(CORPUS CHRISTI) /A
14 JUNE 2020
REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (John 6: 51-58)
THE BREAD OF LIFE
THE BREAD OF LIFE
The Gospel for today’s feast comes from Jesus’ long discourse on ‘the Bread of Life’ in the sixth chapter of the Gospel according to St John. At this final stage of the discourse Jesus explicitly links the gift of the Eucharist with the manna (‘bread from heaven’) that sustained the Israelites during their time of wandering in the wilderness of Sinai.
For most of the discourse, however, Jesus has been speaking of himself as ‘the Bread of Life’ in a more general sense. The people want him to emulate Moses, who arranged for ‘bread from heaven’ (the manna) to be given to their ancestors. But Jesus refuses to be just another figure like Moses, turning on miracles for the people. He identifies the manna with himself. He is the life-giving ‘Bread’ that God has sent down from heaven.
While the original manna simply sustained the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness, the new ‘Bread from heaven’ sustains life in a far deeper sense. Jesus describes it as ‘my flesh for the life of the world’ – an allusion to his death, in which he will lay down his earthly life that the world might share the eternal life of God.
As the words of consecration make clear, the Body and Blood of the Lord in the Eucharist are always the body ‘given up’ for us and the cup ‘poured out’ for us. In this sacramental mystery believers encounter a divine communication of sacrificial love and life, foreshadowed by but far surpassing what the Israelites experienced at Sinai.
Brendan Byrne, SJ
I Am The Bread of Life | Suzanne Toolan with Lyrics | Catholic Hymn Song | Sunday 7pm Choir:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvD0XJzOWQ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX4uC3a7RC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhdFESRoy5k
Ta Là Bánh Ban Sự Sống:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJAMEqB_RHs
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