Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B
The bread that comes down from heaven is not just a bread which nourishes the body, but one which gives renewed life – be this in the form of energy and purpose (as we see in the story of Elijah) or in the form of a gift of eternal life. As Jesus continues his discourse on the Bread of Life, he faces the complaints and criticism of the crowd, who take a very short-sighted view of what he says, and affirms for them that true life, a life the will never end, is found in him, he is the one who has come from the Father, and so is the living bread which gives life. Jesus here makes an explicit link between “belief” and “eating the bread of life”: the two lead to each other, and they both bring about that which man most desires to live for ever. The Response to the Psalm in many ways sums this up: ‘Taste and see that the Lord is good.’
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