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:
Look at Saul: Here is a man with the best of brains and
schooled by Gamaliel, the best of teachers of his time. He knew the
Scriptures; he knew the Truth. But then, that part of the Truth
that he had not known hits him hard, felling him to the ground,
blinding him, and breaking open spaces in his mind and heart for
the entry of the Truth, not as a concept, but as a person, an
encounter, a relationship. If he was willing to kill for the sake
of the impersonal truth he had known before, now he is willing
to suffer, as the Lord informs Ananias, for the sake of Him, the
Truth in flesh and blood. It is to such an intimate encounter that
Jesus is inviting the Jews (and us) who are listening to him: to
commune with him in his body and blood so as to live in him.
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