Dearest Goddaughter (LTR-76) - Bread of Life

Dearest Goddaughter,

In today's Gospel, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ tells the people (and us): "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst." Jesus promises to be with us until the end of the age, and he keeps his promise in the Eucharist, which he instituted at the Last Supper.

We are never closer to Christ, never more intimately in his presence than when we receive him into our body at Holy Communion. Jesus is present to us when we sit before the Blessed Sacrament. Yet, we sometimes allow our limited senses to dull our faith and belief in the real presence of our Lord and our God in the Eucharist. In those moments, let us get on our knees and beg God to help us with our unbelief.

I have the blessed opportunity to talk with our Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion tomorrow evening on Eucharistic miracles. I look forward to it. However, a Eucharistic miracle happens at every Mass when the bread and wine, through the Holy Spirit, becomes the Body and Blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Believe, and be healed.

Love,

Bỏ Phúc

P.S. These are the readings for the day: Acts 7:51—8:1a and Jn 6:30-35 (see below).

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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."