Timothy O’Malley continues his reflection on the bread of life discourse in this week’s Opening the Word. He reminds us that eating the flesh of Jesus and drinking his blood are necessary if we are to experience the resurrection from the dead.
Preparing us for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Timothy O’Malley continues his discussion about the Bread of Life. We hear, after Jesus announces, “I am the Bread of Life,” that the crowds begin to murmur among themselves at which Jesus announces
Preparing us for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Timothy O’Malley writes about the continuation of the bread of life discourse. The crowds gather to see Jesus work a miracle. The crowd desires bread that the Father provided through Moses. Jesus announces,
In years when the Church reads the Gospel of Mark, which is the shortest of the Gospels, we spend mid-summer Masses listening to the Bread of Life discourse in the Gospel of John. John 6, as we will see over the next