Reflections on Scripture | Thursday of the Third Week of Easter

Join Msgr. Don Fischer as he reads and delivers a short reflection on today’s gospel, followed by 3 1/2 minutes of contemplative music and a closing prayer. Msgr. Don hopes that today’s reflection on the gospel will empower you to carry the Word in your heart throughout the day.

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Gospel
John 6:44-51

Jesus said to the crowds:
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him,
and I will raise him on the last day.
It is written in the prophets:

They shall all be taught by God.

Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
Not that anyone has seen the Father
except the one who is from God;
he has seen the Father.
Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven
so that one may eat it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give
is my Flesh for the life of the world.”

Reflection

There's an image in this reading that strikes me that I haven't really thought about that much, but it says that everyone who is listening to my father and learns from my father will come to Jesus, the God man. It's clear then that this intention of God, the father, from the very beginning of the Adam and Eve story until the coming of Jesus, was in preparation for who Jesus is.

And Jesus is the most amazing intimacy with God. That's what He longs to teach us, that’s what changes everything when we learn it.

Closing Prayer

Father, we tend to work hard at learning how to love and how to be who you call us to be. Free as from the need for such effort, when we understand where the source of all good comes from. Not from us. But through us, from you. Amen.

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