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 Twentieth Sunday
of the year. Listen:
GospelJn
6:51-58
Jesus said to the crowds: "I am the living bread that
came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and
the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."
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."