Friday, May 9, 2014
5.09.14
Lectio: Jn 6.60-69
Meditatio: “As a result of this, many [of] his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. Jesus then said to the Twelve, ‘Do you also want to leave?’ Simon Peter answered him, ‘Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
Jn 6.66-68
Oratio: "O God, many of Jesus’s disciples left Him when He declared that He was the Bread of Life and they had to eat His body and drink His blood if they desired eternal life.
I remember John, the Evangelist, recorded the desertion of many of Jesus’ disciples because they found it too hard to believe; but in doing so, John emphasized the nature of the Eucharist for if Jesus meant it symbolically, these disciples would never have left and Jesus would have been be so unkind for giving them the wrong meaning. In prayer thank Jesus for loving us so and providing the means for us to be with Him now and forever.
I ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what.
God is saying to you
Operatio: “Peter...You...words...eternal life”; Peter, to whom Primacy is given, graced us with his profession of faith; seek the grace to have a strong faith and to readily confess that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist; and when we partake of it, we have divine life within us.
Tomorrow's reading: Jn 10.1-10
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