Sunday’s Gospel: Jesus is the living bread, come down from heaven

Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh,for the life of the world. (John 6:51) It is hard for us to imagine the shock of Jesus’s listeners at these words from Sunday’s Gospel. Up until now, they had understood his self-reference as “the bread The post Sunday’s Gospel: Jesus is the living bread, come down from heaven appeared first on Catholic Herald.

Sunday’s Gospel: Jesus is the living bread, come down from heaven
Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh,for the life of the world. (John 6:51) It is hard for us to imagine the shock of Jesus’s listeners at these words from Sunday’s Gospel. Up until now, they had understood his self-reference as “the bread The post Sunday’s Gospel: Jesus is the living bread, come down from heaven appeared first on Catholic Herald.