FIRST READING
Deuteronomy 8:2—3, 14b—16a
Deuteronomy 8:2—3, 14b—16a
SECOND READING
1 Corinthians 10:16—17
1 Corinthians 10:16—17
GOSPEL
John 6:51—58
John 6:51—58
OFFER
AND ACCEPTANCE WITHOUT CONSIDERATION.
The
love of God towards us is unquantifiable. God loves us so much that, a night
before his death he instituted the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist and Holy
Orders. He instituted the Holy Eucharist and to allow us to partake of it even
when he is not with us physically, he asked his apostles to do it in memory of
him (Luke 19:22). In the second reading of today St. Paul is making it clearer
to us that the bread we break and the cup we bless are body and blood of
Christ. During last supper, he said to his apostles, take this all of you and
eat it for this is my body which will be given up for you and when supper was
ended, he took the cup and blessed it gave it to his apostles saying take this
and drink from it for this is my blood, the blood of the new covenant and
everlasting covenant, for the forgiveness of sins of many. Do this in memory of
me. In today’s gospel, Jesus is telling us that we can only see life in him. He
is the only life that we can embrace and we will be sure of everlasting life. Onye
obuna riri ma obu nuo obara mu ga enwe ndu maka na ahu bu ihe oriri ma obara mu
bu ihe onunu. His flesh and are the best thing that will happen to us. Continue Reading