Exodus 16:2-4; God tells Moses, “I will now rain down bread from heaven for you.”
2 Kings 4:42-44; Elisha uses twenty barley loaves to feed hundreds of people, and has food leftover.
John 6:1-14; Jesus feeds a crowd with five loaves and two fish, and twelve wicker baskets are needed to gather the fragments.
And today’s Gospel reminds us that Christ is not filling our stomachs.
John 6:41-51.
‘I am the bread of life…..this is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a man may eat it and not die. I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’
Do this in memory of me.
How many times have I routinely followed the Liturgies and not truly felt the weight of what we are remembering, what Christ has done for us?
This inspirational video (h/t Lisa Hendey Faith & Family Live!) very powerfully connects you visually with the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
