Thursday of Week 3 of Eastertide - John 6: 44-51

Daily Gospel Exegesis

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John 6: 44-51 - 'I am the living bread which has come down from Heaven.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 259 (in 'The Divine Works and the Trinitarian Missions') - Being a work at once common and personal, the whole divine economy makes known both what is proper to the divine persons, and their one divine nature. Hence the whole Christian life is a communion with each of the divine persons, without in any way separating them. Everyone who glorifies the Father does so through the Son in the Holy Spirit; everyone who follows Christ does so because the Father draws him and the Spirit moves him.

- 1001 (in 'How do the dead rise?') - When? Definitively "at the last day," "at the end of the world." Indeed, the resurrection of the dead is closely associated with Christ's Parousia: For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. and the dead in Christ will rise first.

- 151 (in 'To Believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God') - For a Christian, believing in God cannot be separated from believing in the One he sent, his "beloved Son", in whom the Father is "well pleased"; God tells us to listen to him. The Lord himself said to his disciples: "Believe in God, believe also in me." We can believe in Jesus Christ because he is himself God, the Word made flesh: "No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known." Because he "has seen the Father", Jesus Christ is the only one who knows him and can reveal him.

- 728 (in 'Christ Jesus') - Jesus does not reveal the Holy Spirit fully, until he himself has been glorified through his Death and Resurrection. Nevertheless, little by little he alludes to him even in his teaching of the multitudes, as when he reveals that his own flesh will be food for the life of the world (abbreviated).

- 1355 (in 'The Movement of the Eucharistic Celebration') - In the communion, preceded by the Lord's prayer and the breaking of the bread, the faithful receive "the bread of heaven" and "the cup of salvation," the body and blood of Christ who offered himself "for the life of the world." Because this bread and wine have been made Eucharist ("eucharisted," according to an ancient expression), "we call this food Eucharist, and no one may take part in it unless he believes that what we teach is true, has received baptism for the forgiveness of sins and new birth, and lives in keeping with what Christ taught."

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Daily Gospel Exegesis, where we take a look at the literal sense of the gospel for the day, the gospel that's
0:22.8	in the lectionary for the Catholic Mass. And in the last few days, we have been looking at John
0:28.2	chapter 6 every day that has been the Mass's gospel reading. And we're continuing today,
0:34.4	John chapter 6, verses 44 to 51. So here's the reading and then we'll do
0:40.9	an exegesis on what the literal sense is telling us. Jesus said to the crowd, no one can come to me
0:49.4	unless he is drawn by the father who sent me and I will raise him up at the last day.
0:57.0	It is written in the prophets, they will all be taught by God, and to hear the teaching of the Father and learn from it is to come to me.
1:06.8	Not that anybody has seen the Father, except the one who comes from God.
1:13.0	He has seen the Father.
1:15.1	I tell you most solemnly, everybody who believes has eternal life.
1:21.6	I am the bread of life.
1:24.0	Your fathers ate the manor in the desert and they are dead.
1:27.8	But this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that a man may eat it and not die.
1:34.6	I am the living bread which has come down from heaven.
1:38.6	Anyone who eats this bread will live forever.
1:42.2	And the bread that I shall give is my flesh for the life of the world.
1:51.4	So what's the context here? So Jesus has begun the Eucharistic discourse or the Bread of Life
1:57.1	discourse that started earlier in John chapter 6.
2:05.6	And we learned later on, the text hasn't told us this yet, but it will at the end of the servant, it tells us the location of this entire sermon, is actually in the synagogue at
2:10.8	Copernum.
2:11.6	So Jesus is in the synagogue and he's teaching the crowds.
2:15.9	In the last few verses, he's been inviting people to have faith that
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