Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
The celebration of diversity sounds throughout our communities these days, from Boston and San Diego to Beirut and Santiago, But what keeps us together?
John J. Pilch
Today’s passage reports that Jesus’ comments led his contemporaries to a violent dispute among themselves: “How can he give us his flesh to eat?”
Listen to what the Apostle says over and over again when speaking of this sacrament: “Because there is one loaf, we, though we are many, form one body.”
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
The context of the “eucharistic discourse” of John 6 entails an important Jewish tradition that still goes largely unnoticed in current teaching and preaching.
Reginald H. Fuller
Paul himself treated the water from the rock and the manna as types of the two great Christian sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion.