27/04/2023

Jesus is "the living bread that has come down from heaven". The pure "Life" and "Love" that is the "being" of God" was walking the roads of Palestine and revealing to the "crowd" how to understand the wonder of their beings and their history. The people who listened saw a man just as they were. 

Many who listened were familiar with the Scriptures and were fertile ground in which to plant new seed "Could this be the "Messiah" who had been promised? The fishermen had asked this of themselves when first called and no doubt this question was always in the minds of the Jews to whom Jesus had first preached.

Many of the non-Jews, those who had listened to his preaching and witnessed or heard of his miracles around Sidon and in the Decapolis would have been mystified by the concept of "Messiah"and asked for explanations from their Jewish neighbours. St Philip was sent to do this to the Ethiopian.

Jesus tells us all directly that we have to eat the Bread of Heaven if we are to know eternal life. He is the Bread of Heaven. With Jesus there is no guile. He is what we see and he says what he is. He is a man such as we are. He bleeds out his human flesh to become the ever present Sacrifice in the Sacrament of the Altar. 

The Evergreater Father, Son and Holy Spirit is ever present in the bread and wine of the mass just as the man Jesus was at the Last Supper and on the hill at Golgotha and this will be so until the end of earthly time. God's Eternity is known only to himself.

Dear Lord, you know that I believe your words but doubt the intentions of the corruption that has damaged your Church. May Mary's pleas for the water to be turned into wine once more be witnessed by a renewal of holiness that will overcome the damage to your Church done by my sins and those of the whole world.