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Jesus brings his listeners to a turning point in his own “Eucharistic Congress” on the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C.
In five straight Sunday Gospels after the National Eucharistic Congress, the Church is reading from the Sixth Chapter of John’s Gospel. In the first, Jesus took the food a boy gave him and multiplied it like a new manna, to show his power and to prepare for the Eucharist. In the second, he answered the doubts of the crowd with strong testimony suggesting he is a new Moses — and more. He commanded: “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”
This Sunday is the third in the series, and Jesus starts to spell out something entirely new and shocking.
Given that their one job is to believe, Jesus’s audience gets off to a really bad start.
Continued below.
In five straight Sunday Gospels after the National Eucharistic Congress, the Church is reading from the Sixth Chapter of John’s Gospel. In the first, Jesus took the food a boy gave him and multiplied it like a new manna, to show his power and to prepare for the Eucharist. In the second, he answered the doubts of the crowd with strong testimony suggesting he is a new Moses — and more. He commanded: “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”
This Sunday is the third in the series, and Jesus starts to spell out something entirely new and shocking.
Given that their one job is to believe, Jesus’s audience gets off to a really bad start.
Continued below.
This Sunday, God Had the Eucharist In Mind All Along (Jesus’s Eucharistic Congress, 3)
Jesus brings his listeners, and us, to a turning point in his Eucharistic Discourse from John Chapter 6.
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