Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an

apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and

new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Peace be with you. Friends, this weekend we come to the end of our

peripheral liturgical reflection upon John chapter 6. This wonderful chapter in

which we find John's reflection upon the Eucharist. Now we had a little pause

last week because we had the feast of the assumption of Mary. But we've been

following the discourse of Jesus in the Caparnum synagogue. What I want to do

is just pay a little attention first to what we would have read last week and

then we'll get to this sort of day new Ma, this concluding section which

of the gospel for today. So we recall that Jesus had talked about Himself as the

bread of life. Indeed the bread come down from heaven unless you eat this bread

you will have no life within you. Well, understandably, his audience

balked at this. How can this man give us his flesh to eat? He's the bread come

down from heaven. I mean it seems so outrageous. What we would have read last

Sunday is Jesus very intriguing rejoinder. In the face of this protest, given every

opportunity to explain his words in a more metaphorical poetic way, Jesus

instead turns up the heat. Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink

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