What return can I make to the Lord for all that He to me?
We have been asking him to open our minds to understand his words, for he says, his words are "spirit and life"! However, Jesus' words of life concerning the Eucharist are also a challenge, a "hard saying," like his teaching on the necessity of the cross. "Does it shake your faith?" The same challenge is placed before us. And because many are shaken by the truth about the Eucharist, a sad division remains among Christians to this day. "Do you want to leave me too?" He will not change his teaching in order to accommodate our limitations. The truth cannot change ; we must change. To remain with him, we must accept the truth in all its fullness.
Through the Eucharist, the Bread of Life, we share in the same divine life and power as Peter and the apostles. This does not mean we need to perform dramatic signs, but we are called to live a deeply Eucharistic life, full of confidence in Jesus Christ, whose life is in us. The more we abandon ourselves to him in faith, the more powerfully he can work through us to give spiritual life and health to others.♥
Acts 9:31-42 / Jn 6:63, 68 / Jn 6: 60-69
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