8/19/18: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time: It is Not Enough to Believe in Jesus... We Must Eat Him Too

The dialogue between Jesus and his Jewish audience in John's 6th chapter is divided into two parts. In the first part, Jesus focuses on the necessity of believing that he is "from heaven". In the second part Jesus insists that we must eat Him, the Bread come down from heaven. When the Jews protest (rightly), "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?", Jesus doubles down: "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood you do not have life within you.... [M]y flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink." Acoording to the Scriptures, tt's not enough to believe in Jesus. We must eat him too, so that the divine life which flows from the Father and through Jesus flows right into us as well...