In this week's edition of "There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye,"Jill Bevilacqua
and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Eighteenth Sunday
of the Year. Listen:
GospelJn 6:24-35
When the crowd saw
that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into
boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. And when they found
him across the sea they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?" Jesus
answered them and said, "Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking
for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were
filled. Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that
endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For
on him the Father, God, has set his seal." So they said to him, "What
can we do to accomplish the works of God?" Jesus answered and said to them, "This
is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent." So they said to
him, "What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What
can you do? Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written: He
gave them bread from heaven to eat.? So Jesus said to them, "Amen,
amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my
Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that
which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
So
they said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always." Jesus said
to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never
hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst."