Jesus offers himself as food for the soul. There is a great truth revealed in the bread of life discourse: it is the law of the gift. This personal, incarnating God wants to be eaten and drunk, to be radically and fully for the other. […]
This God who shows us that he is totally love, and who wants us to eat and drink him in, is the God who wants us to be like him. As he is food and drink for the world, so we must be food and drink for the world. As he gave himself away utterly, so we must give ourselves away fully.
--Bishop Robert Barron,
Gospel Reflection, May 9, 2019
Image source: Joos Van Cleve, The Last Supper (detail), Pradella of the Altarpiece of Lamentation (ca. 1530), http://www.jesuswalk.com/lords-supper/8_john6.htm
No comments:
Post a Comment