John 6:60-69 Then Jesus said to the Twelve, ‘What about you, do you want to go away too?’ Simon Peter answered, ‘Lord, who shall we go to? You have the message of eternal life, and we believe; we know that you are the Holy One of God.’ Often in liturgy we are holding several time …
Monthly Archives: April 2024
Friday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:52-59 ‘He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.’ When we gather together to give thanks to the Father and to share bread and wine we make a statement about who we are as individuals and who we are as community. We receive Christ’s broken …
Thursday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:44-51 ‘Your fathers ate the manna in the desert and they are dead; but this is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a man may eat it and not die.’ It’s worth reading the whole of the Bread of Life discourse (John 6:22-66) in one sitting to get a sense of …
Wednesday, Third Week of Easter
Acts 8:1-8John 6:35-40 I am the bread of life.He who comes to me will never be hungry;he who believes in me will never thirst. We are so familiar with Jesus’ language when he refers to himself as ‘the Bread of Life’ that it is easy to miss just how bold a claim this was. In …
Tuesday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:30-35 ‘Sir,’ they said ‘give us that bread always.’Jesus answered:‘I am the bread of life.He who comes to me will never be hungry;he who believes in me will never thirst.’ These texts from John’s Gospel are so familiar that I often find myself letting them wash over me. Today I noticed something new. The …
Monday, Third Week of Easter
John 6:22-29 Today’s Gospel is the beginning of a long passage in which Jesus talks about himself as the ‘Bread of Life.’ We know at the outset that there will be confusion. Jesus is talking about much more than having physical hunger satisfied. Today I can’t get passed the first level of meaning of these …
Third Sunday of Easter
Luke 24:35-48 I am always struck by the ways in which the Risen Christ reassures his disciples. By the tomb he asks Mary why she is weeping and then calls her by by name. On the road to Emmaus he walks alongside his disciples and asks them why they are downcast. At Tiberias he invites …
Saturday, Second Week of Easter
John 6:16-21 In just 5 verses the writer of the Fourth Gospel has given us a window into a whole theological world. The story of Jesus walking on the water comes just after he had fed the 5,000. For the hearers of this Gospel the resonances with the Exodus story may well have been clear. …
Friday, Second Week of Easter
John 6:1-15 In his book. Eating Together: Becoming One, Tom O’Loughlin examines the many ways in which meals feature in the Gospels. He lays alongside the Scriptural story our human experience of gathering and sharing food. He suggests that there is a particular grammar at work in meals. When we invite people for a meal …
Thursday, Second Week of Easter
John 3:31-36 Today we move from the story of Nicodemus meeting Jesus by night to the scene of John the Baptist in the Judean countryside. Nicodemus is set before us as a figure who seeks clarity in his confusion. John the Baptist is a figure of absolute certainty. I can sometimes be unnerved by John …