Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. John 6.53,60-69: "The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life". Simon Peter answered him, "Lord to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life".

"Hold back nothing of yourself for yourself from Jesus. Give your all to him, who gave his all for you" (St. Francis of Assisi).

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. John 6.51-58: "Very truly I tell you whoever eats eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in them".

"I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament. There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth and more than that...God" (J. R. R. Tolkien)

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. John 6. 41-51: 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. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them".

In Holy Communion we die to sin and he gives us grace, we die to our own wills and receive the divine will, we humbly give him our stony hearts and have them returned to us softened and natural, we give him our humanity and he gives us his divinity. We commune with Christ's death and receive his life.

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. John 6.41-51: "I am the bread of life. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh".

"All people desire to leave a lasting mark. But what endures? Money does not. Even buildings do not, nor books. After a certain time longer or shorter, all these things disappear. The only thing that lasts forever is the human soul, the human person created by god for eternity" (Pope Benedict XVI).

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. John 6.1-15: "Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and gave them out to all who were sitting ready; he then did the same with the fish, giving out as much as was wanted".

O Sacrament most holy, O Sacrament divine, all praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine.

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. Mark 6.30-34: "...as he stepped ashore he saw a large crowd; and he took pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself to teach them at some length".

"The Lord is my shepherd there is nothing that I lack, fresh and green are the pastures where he bids me rest. Near restful waters he leads me to renew my dropping spirits, he restores my soul" (Psalm 23).

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. Mark 6.7-13: "Jesus summoned the twelve and began sending them out in pairs giving them authority over the unclean spirits. And he instructed them to take nothing for their journey except a staff - no bread, no haversack no coppers for their purses."

"I am on a mission and have become the bearer of that which another has committed to my charge" (Pope Benedict XVI).