Monday of Week 3 of Eastertide - John 6: 22-29

Daily Gospel Exegesis

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🗓️ 4 May 2025

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John 6: 22-29 - 'Do not work for food that cannot last, but for food that endures to eternal life.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2835 (in 'Give us this day our daily bread') - This petition, with the responsibility it involves, also applies to another hunger from which men are perishing: "Man does not live by bread alone, but . . . by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God," that is, by the Word he speaks and the Spirit he breathes forth. Christians must make every effort "to proclaim the good news to the poor." There is a famine on earth, "not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD." For this reason the specifically Christian sense of this fourth petition concerns the Bread of Life: the Word of God accepted in faith, the Body of Christ received in the Eucharist.

- 698 (in 'Symbols of the Holy Spirit') - The seal is a symbol close to that of anointing. "The Father has set his seal" on Christ and also seals us in him. Because this seal indicates the indelible effect of the anointing with the Holy Spirit in the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders, the image of the seal (sphragis) has been used in some theological traditions to express the indelible "character" imprinted by these three unrepeatable sacraments.

- 1296 (in 'The Rite of Confirmation') - Christ himself declared that he was marked with his Father's seal. Christians are also marked with a seal: "It is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has commissioned us; he has put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee." This seal of the Holy Spirit marks our total belonging to Christ, our enrollment in his service for ever, as well as the promise of divine protection in the great eschatological trial.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the daily gospel exegesis podcast.
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0:39.5	in this way by looking at the literal sense of the text every single day, which is what we do.
0:44.9	And we'll continue today by looking at the gospel reading for today, which is John
0:49.3	6, verses 22 to 29.
0:59.7	After Jesus had fed the 5,000, his disciples saw him walking on the water.
1:06.5	The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side saw that only one boat had been there and that Jesus had not got into the boat with his disciples, but that the disciples had set off
1:12.9	by themselves. Other boats, however, had put in from Tiberius near the place where the bread
1:19.6	had been eaten. When the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into
1:26.0	those boats and crossed to Copernum to look for Jesus.
1:30.5	When they found him on the other side, they said to him,
1:34.8	Rabbi, when did you come here?
1:37.8	Jesus answered, I tell you most solemnly, you are not looking for me because you have seen the signs, but because
1:46.2	you had all the bread that you wanted to eat. Do not work for food that cannot last, but work
1:52.4	for food that endures to eternal life. The kind of food the son of man is offering you,
1:59.4	for on him the father, God himself, has set his seal.
2:05.9	Then they said to him, what must we do if we are to do the works that God wants?
2:12.8	Jesus gave them this answer.
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