The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
My flesh is really food, and my blood is truly drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood, live in me, and I in them.
Just as the Father, who is life, sent me, and I have life from the Father, so whoever eats me will have life from me.
This is the bread from heaven; not like that of your ancestors, who ate and later died. Those who eat this bread will live forever.”
LECTIO DIVINA:
Read: The readings for today’s Solemnity all speak of the tremendous blessing we have been given and continuously receive in the Body and Blood of Christ.
It is what feeds us, it is what unites us, and it is what will sustain us unto eternal life.
Reflect: What a truly precious gift we have received in the Body and Blood of Jesus. It is real food and real drink, as he says in the Gospel.
It sustains and nourishes us, just as it sustains, nourishes and brings the Church together.
It is an amazing thing to think that the Father has chosen not only to sustain us physically, but emotionally, spiritually,
intellectually (and in every other conceivable way possible), but giving us the Body and Blood of His Son. What more precious gift could there be!
Pray: Lord, give me a grateful heart, for the precious gift of your Body and Blood which I am privileged to receive, which sustains my in body and soul,
and which gives me the strength to remain steadfast in your commandments, until I see you face to face.
Act: See to it that you fast an hour before receiving Holy Communion.
Remember that we need to be in a state of grace if we are to receive Jesus’ precious Body and Blood.
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