In today’s Gospel passage, three parts are easily recognized. In the first, Jesus is alone with the twelve disciples and questions them about their identity: about what people think of him and about what his own disciples think of him. What is his deeper...
This Sunday we listen to the fifth and last passage of chapter 6 of the Gospel according to John. In past Sundays, the Church has been presenting us with segments of that chapter in which Jesus expounds and develops his teaching about the need to believe in him and to...
One of the characteristics of Catholic theology on the Eucharist is its realism. According to the Catholic faith, the consecrated bread and wine do not symbolize, represent or evoke the Body and Blood of Christ, but are the Body and Blood of Christ in a real,...
This Sunday’s Gospel passage continues Jesus’ teaching on the bread of life. Let’s take a brief look at it. A crowd has gathered in a lonely place to listen to Jesus. In pity for them, Jesus has multiplied five loaves and two fish to feed them, and...
Today’s Gospel passage links with the one we read last Sunday. Jesus multiplied loaves and fishes to give a sign to the multitude of the abundance of the gift he has brought; to give a sign that he is the only one who can satisfy the deep hunger for meaning and...
