Friday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Jn 6: 52-59
April 28, 2023 | Friday
The Jews were arguing among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus replied, “Truly, I say to you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
My flesh is really food, and my blood is truly drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood, live in me, and I in them. Just as the Father, who is life, sent me, and I have life from the Father, so whoever eats me will have life from me. This is the bread from heaven; not like that of your ancestors, who ate and later died. Those who eat this bread will live forever.”
Jesus spoke in this way in Capernaum when he taught them in the synagogue.
Today’s Reflection:
In Holy Communion, love is consumed. Or to better put it, we are consumed by His love. There exists an intimacy that Jesus, Bread of Life is welcomed by the communicant and he enters, dwells, and gives life. A spiritual writer puts it succinctly: “Take, eat! Words that surprise me every time, like a declaration of love: “I want to be in your hands as a gift, in your mouth like bread, in your heart like blood, to make me a cell, a breath , a thought of you. Your life”.” And we always respond “Amen.” to the Body of Christ to signify our openness and willingness to partake of this great blessing. /Vulnerasti, 2023
