Welcome to Sunday Homelies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.

I hope today's homelie inspires and motivates you, and I also hope that it leaves you hungry

for the one who gave everything to feed you.

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God bless.

The Lord be with you.

You're reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.

Chapter 6 verses 51 to 58.

The Lord is the bread that came down from heaven, unlike your ancestors who ate and still died,

whoever eats this bread will live forever.

The Gospel of the Lord.

I'm sure most people are probably familiar with the Wizard of Oz, the musical or the play

is a musical, I don't know, the TV show.

It's called the movie.

But if you ever read the book by Elfrankbaum that is based off of it, there's a depth

to that book that the musical or the movie is good on its own.

But there's a depth to this book.

In fact, there's a point in scene.

What I mean by that is we think of the scarecrow or the tin woodsman and the coverly line.

There's kind of these characters or caricatures in the movie.

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