OT 20 B – Eternal Life

August 15, 2021
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Today, Catholic Christians celebrate the 20thSunday in Ordinary Time.  On this day, we continue hearing what is known as the “Bread of Life Discourse” that Jesus gave to his disciples.  Today, in part, we read:

“Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen.  I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.  Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.  For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.  Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.  Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.  This is the bread that came down from heaven.  Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever’” (John 6: 53-58).

In this discourse, Jesus is talking about the Blessed Sacrament, the bread and wine that become his Body and Blood in the Eucharist (Mass).

In the above photo, we see some young people who have just celebrated their First Communion in the Eucharist that was offered in their community of Santa Cruz, a community of Reitoca, F.M., Honduras.