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Theo Tigno•
4/27/2007 10:21 am
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Friday in the Third Week of Easter |
John 6:52-59
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his Flesh to eat?" Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my Flesh is true food, and my Blood is true drink. Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever." These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is in thanksgiving for pastors of our churches (this upcoming Sunday is Pastor Sunday).
We are fortunate to read today's reading in the season of Easter because we have on our minds HOW Christ will bring us to everlasting life.
In light of His resurrection and contemplating the Body of Christ which He gives to each of us as "true food and true drink" today's reflection is a quote from the Late Pope John Paul II:
"The body of Christ, filled with The Holy Spirit in the resurrection, is the source of new life for risen bodies: 'It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.' (1 Corinthians 15:44) The 'natural' body (that is, animated by the psyche) is destined to disappear to yield place to the 'spirital body' animated by the pneuma, the Spirit. He is the principle of new life already present during normal life, but which will reach his full effectiveness after death. Then he will be the author of the resurrection of the natural body in the completed reality of the spiritual body through union with the Risen Christ, the heavenly man and the 'life-giving spirit.'"
Take care and God Bless.
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