In what ways does God touch you and give you strength and hope for life’s journey?

In the seemingly soft seasons of our spiritual practices, we’re developing a relationship that will sustain us through the arctic darkness when it comes.

I’m telling you the most solemn and sober truth now: Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life. I am the Bread of Life. Your ancestors ate the manna bread in the desert and died. But now here is Bread that truly comes down out of heaven.

Jesus wants the people to understand that he is the Bread of Life, more nourishing and life sustaining than even the historic manna. And so, he is saying to us that, whatever ails us, whatever our problems, we need only to come to the table of plenty where the Eucharist will give us all the comfort we need.

It is only through Jesus that we know God. We ask forgiveness for the times we have not heeded the Lord’s teaching and followed him.

The gospel this week continues a shift of emphasis from belief in Jesus’ words to the necessity of eating his flesh, which is the living bread.

The holy Eucharist contains the whole spiritual treasure of the church, that is, Christ himself. —Second Vatican Council, Presbyterorum Ordinis (no. 5), 1965