In today's gospel, Christ hammers away at His Bread of Life metaphor; He
just will not give it up. It reinforces how important an idea it is to
Him. "He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting
life: and I will raise him up on the last day."
This is usually translated as a reference to Holy Communion, The
Eucharist. But why would Christ be speaking to future devotees, to the
Church of the Middle Ages and now? And what could this have possibly
meant to His contemporary Jewish audience?
In juxtaposing the manna from heaven and the Bread of Life, Christ is
distinguishing the material from the immaterial, the physical from the
spiritual in the debate that has repeated itself since recorded time. He
is saying that the materialists have a firm grasp of one appendage of
the elephant of life.
The fatal one.
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