and I will raise him up on the last day. My flesh is really food, and my blood is truly drink.
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood, live in me, and I in them. Just as the Father, who is life, sent me,
and I have life from the Father, so whoever eats me will have life from me. This is the bread from heaven;
not like that of your ancestors, who ate and later died. Those who eat this bread will live forever.”
Jesus spoke in this way in Capernaum when he taught them in the synagogue.
REFLECTION:
It is amazing to think that the young man who had approved of Stephen’s death and who had been spewing murderous
threats against the early Church ends up preaching the very Good News which he had earlier sought with all his might to discredit.
But this didn’t come because of some intellectual enlightenment. Saul had no time to enter into arguments with the early Christians.
All he wanted to do was round them up and throw them in jail and, if possible, even have them executed.
No, Saul’s conversion happened because of a very personal encounter with Jesus himself, and encounter that literally “threw him off balance”
and made him fall. Faith, if it is genuine, is rarely an encounter with an idea or even an ideal, no matter how lofty and noble.
Rather it is an encounter with a person, and his name is Jesus. This was Saul’s experience; it should also be ours.
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