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Message of the Day
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The detachment from the confusion all around us is in order to have a richer attachment to God. Christian meditation leads us to the inner wholeness necessary to give ourselves to God freely.
- Richard Foster, Celebration Of Discipline
(Offer yourself and your cares to God this day. If any concerns come along, offer them as well.)
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Lectionary Readings
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ACTS 8:26-40; PS 66:8-9, 16-17, 20; JN 6:44-51
R. Let all the earth cry out to God with
joy.
Bless our God, you peoples,
loudly sound his praise;
He has given life to our souls,
and has not let our feet slip.
Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare
what he has done for me.
When I appealed to him in words,
praise was on the tip of my tongue.
Blessed be God who refused me not
my prayer or his kindness!
USCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Gospel
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Jesus offers us the abundant supernatural life of heaven itself - but we can miss it or even refuse it. To refuse Jesus is to refuse eternal life, unending life with the Heavenly Father. To accept Jesus as the bread of
heaven is not only life and spiritual nourishment for this world but glory in the world to come. When you approach the Table of the Lord, what do you expect to receive? Healing, pardon, comfort, and rest for your soul? The Lord has much more for us, more than we can ask or imagine. The principal fruit of receiving the Eucharist or Lord's Supper is an intimate union with Christ. As bodily
nourishment restores lost strength, so the Eucharist strengthens us in charity and enables us to break with disordered attachments to creatures and to be more firmly rooted in the love of Christ. Do you hunger for the "bread of life"?"Lord Jesus, you are the living bread which sustains me in this life. May I always hunger for the bread which comes from heaven and find in it the
nourishment and strength I need to love and serve you wholeheartedly. May I always live in the joy, peace, and unity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, both now and in the age to come." DailyScripture.net
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Spiritual Reading
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The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous That without full special grace, or long use in common grace, the work of this book is right travailous; and in this work, which is the work of the soul helped by grace,
and which is the work of only God.
But wherein then is this travail, I pray thee? Surely, this travail is all in treading down of the remembrance of all the creatures that ever God made, and in holding of them under the cloud of forgetting named before. In this is all the travail, for this is man's travail, with help of grace. And the tother above--that is to say, the
stirring of love--that is the work of only God. And therefore do on thy work, and surely I promise thee He shall not fail in His.
- Chapter 26
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