Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
What is real fulfillment? More basically, what is real? These questions are the hidden agenda in Jesus’ encounter with the crowds in the fourth Gospel.
John J. Pilch
“Eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking his blood” became a common way for Christians around the time of John’s Gospel to describe participation in the Eucharist.
Those who eat and drink the Lord’s flesh and blood live in the Lord and the Lord lives in them. A marvelous and inexplicable union occurs by which God is in us, and we are in God.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
There, the author of Hebrews presents Jesus himself as a model for the Christian persevering through tough challenges
Reginald H. Fuller
Here at last we reach the definitely Eucharistic part of the discourse on the bread of life. We move from bread as such to the flesh and blood of the Son of man.