I AM the Bread for the Journey. The Bread of 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.”  (John 6: 48 - 51).

Sunday 8th August 2021, in the 19th Week in Ordinary Time.

We continue with the beautiful Bread of life Discourse. Can anyone doubt the importance of this subject to Jesus? "I came that you may have life and have it more abundantly." This abundant life comes through the Bread of life. Think for a moment of the opposite of the Bread of life. Bread of death. The Israelites ate manna in the desert. They all died without hope of Resurrection. When you feed on the Bread of life, your body (outer shelf) may die but your soul continues to live forever.

In the first Reading from 1 Kings 19: 4 - 8, the angel instructed Elijah:  “Get up and eat, else the journey will be too long for you!” He got up, ate, and drank; then strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb." The bread Elijah ate foreshadows the Eucharist, the Bread of life. Jesus reveals this in the Gospel of today. The Bread of life is the food for the Journey of life. The Christian life is a Journey of faith. We journey for 40, 60, 80, 90 years towards our heavenly Homeland. Without the sustaining power of the Bread of life, we will be very weak on the way and may not finish the Journey.

This is why O Christian, we must feed on the Bread of life frequently. Do not be satisfied with feeding on this Bread for immortality only on Sundays. What would happen if you eat only once a week? Feed on this Bread more often and appreciate the Abundant life that Jesus Christ has promised us.

"The Eucharist is heaven on earth; the Eucharist is My Church on earth already assumed into heaven. Heaven is wheresoever the words of consecration have been pronounced over the bread and wine in the holy oblation, for there I am present, even as I am present in the glory of My Ascension, adored by the angels, praised by all the saints, held in the divine gaze of My Father, and burning with the fire of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. Believe this and you will find heaven on earth, while waiting and hoping to see My Face in glory." (IN SINU JESU page 250).

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