GOSPEL POWER l MAY 6, 2022 - FRIDAY

3rd Week of Easter

Gospel: Jn 6:52-59 

52The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this  man give us his flesh to eat?” 53So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I  tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his  blood, you have no life in you. 54Those who eat my flesh and drink  my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day;  55for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56Those who  eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. 57Just as  the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever  eats me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down  from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died.  But the one who eats this bread will live forever.” 59He said these  things while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum. 

When the Son of God assumed our lowly nature, he also  embraced the poverty of human language and subjected  himself to its limitations. Thus, in this long speech about the  “bread of life,” he labors to communicate the greatest gift that he  comes, not only to reveal, but also to deliver to us — the life that  he shares with his Father from all eternity. Speaking of a reality from  above using words from below runs the risk of misunderstanding, but  love dares to take that risk. No one is really capable of grasping what  belongs to another dimension and is beyond sense-experience. What  Jesus asks of us is to trust the revealer and the revelation, for only  with faith will the language barrier be surmounted. His invitation to  eat his flesh is actually a symbolic expression which means to put our  faith in him. Lord Jesus, grant that our hearts may trust what our minds cannot grasp. Ignite our Faith! Amen.