20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – John 6:51-58
“Then the Jews started arguing with one another: ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’” Jesus said to the crowd that He is the living bread that has come down from heaven and this bread is His flesh for the life of the world. One of the reactions was this. One group started arguing with one another, “how is this possible?” Many projects of God are struck up in our life because of this “how” question. We must believe in the words of Jesus. When Jesus says, “For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink”, what we must say is to thank Him and not to ask “how”. If Jesus says this, He also finds a way for that. That is the Eucharist. And that is what happens in the Holy Mass. The bread becomes the body of Christ, and the wine becomes the blood of Christ. Jesus shares His body and blood with us so that we have eternal life. Jesus shares His body and blood so that we can live in Him and He can live in us. This is love. We live through His love and His love lives in us. This is the meaning of Christian life too, two aspects: We live through Christ’s life and His love lives in us. Only with these two aspects, we become real Christians. Let’s reflect: How much I live through the life of Christ and How much the life of Christ is alive in me?
Don Giorgio