Theme: Son of Man 1 Oct 2009
John 6:53-54 & 61-63
‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’
‘How could anyone accept it?’
Tonight Gospel is the response of these two questions by the Jews of the time of Jesus!
When Brother Richard & I were in Melbourne during the first week of September, we took on a mission given by our Bishop from the Diocese of Sibu to purchase these 5&3/4 inches communal White Breads from Tarrawarra Abbey, Yarra Glen, Victoria. Australia. Tarrawarra Abbey is a beautiful monastery. The monastery supplies most of the communal bread to the catholic churches in Australia. Bishop Su uses this communal White Bread during the celebration of the Mass.
During the Mass, when the priests consecrate the Eucharistic Bread, it changes into the Body of Christ.
‘How could anyone accept it?’
I thank my Heavenly Father for the gift of faith to accept this truth revealed by the Son of God & the Son of Man, Jesus.
In the Holy communion, Jesus becomes our bread when we eat his body in the Sacrament of the Eucharist. This ‘flesh to eat’ may sound like food for bodily sustenance, but it is really a sharing in the life of the risen Christ transformed by the Spirit. For that reason it gives life. When we eat the body of Christ, we participate in a heavenly reality and enter into communion with the risen Christ. Indeed, at that moment… we are closest to heaven when we participate in that sanctifying Grace. The risen Christ becomes for us the food of eternal life.
The living Bread, the son of man, the Son of God, who is Jesus himself, actively changes us. Christ transforms us, gives his life to us and unites us with himself: “Whoever eats me will have life in me.” The Sacrament we receive helps us mature in the life of God; they affect the very core of our being.
The Eucharist is the body of the Son of Man, the risen Christ transformed by the Spirit, who acts in us spiritually and brings us into communion with God. We need to accept this truth in order to have life.
John 6:53-54 & 61-63
‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’
‘How could anyone accept it?’
Tonight Gospel is the response of these two questions by the Jews of the time of Jesus!
When Brother Richard & I were in Melbourne during the first week of September, we took on a mission given by our Bishop from the Diocese of Sibu to purchase these 5&3/4 inches communal White Breads from Tarrawarra Abbey, Yarra Glen, Victoria. Australia. Tarrawarra Abbey is a beautiful monastery. The monastery supplies most of the communal bread to the catholic churches in Australia. Bishop Su uses this communal White Bread during the celebration of the Mass.
During the Mass, when the priests consecrate the Eucharistic Bread, it changes into the Body of Christ.
Today, two thousand years later, many asked these questions.
‘How can this bread changes into the Body of Christ?’‘How could anyone accept it?’
I thank my Heavenly Father for the gift of faith to accept this truth revealed by the Son of God & the Son of Man, Jesus.
In the Holy communion, Jesus becomes our bread when we eat his body in the Sacrament of the Eucharist. This ‘flesh to eat’ may sound like food for bodily sustenance, but it is really a sharing in the life of the risen Christ transformed by the Spirit. For that reason it gives life. When we eat the body of Christ, we participate in a heavenly reality and enter into communion with the risen Christ. Indeed, at that moment… we are closest to heaven when we participate in that sanctifying Grace. The risen Christ becomes for us the food of eternal life.
The living Bread, the son of man, the Son of God, who is Jesus himself, actively changes us. Christ transforms us, gives his life to us and unites us with himself: “Whoever eats me will have life in me.” The Sacrament we receive helps us mature in the life of God; they affect the very core of our being.
The Eucharist is the body of the Son of Man, the risen Christ transformed by the Spirit, who acts in us spiritually and brings us into communion with God. We need to accept this truth in order to have life.
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