THIS IS THE BREAD COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN
SOLEMNITY OF THE BODY OF CHRIST Universalis
Anyone who
eats this bread will live for ever
First Reading Deuteronomy 8:2-3,14-16
He fed you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known
Moses said to the people: ‘Remember how the Lord your God led you for forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, to test you and know your inmost heart – whether you would keep his commandments or not. He humbled you, he made you feel hunger, he fed you with manna which neither you nor your fathers had known, to make you understand that man does not live on bread alone but that man lives on everything that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
‘Do not become proud of heart. Do not forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery: who guided you through this vast and dreadful wilderness, a land of fiery serpents, scorpions, thirst; who in this waterless place brought you water from the hardest rock; who in this wilderness fed you with manna that your fathers had not known.’
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 10:16-17
That there is only one loaf means that, though we are many, we form one body
The blessing-cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ, and the bread that we break is a communion with the body of Christ. The fact that there is only one loaf means that, though there are many of us, we form a single body because we all have a share in this one loaf.
Gospel John 6:51-58 My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink
Jesus said to the crowd:
‘I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who
eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my
flesh, for the life of the world.’ Then
the Jews started arguing with one another: ‘How can this man give us his flesh
to eat?’ they said. Jesus replied: ‘I tell you most solemnly, if you do not eat
the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall
raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real
drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.
As I, who am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the
Father, so whoever eats me will draw life from me. This is the bread come down
from heaven; not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are dead, but anyone
who eats this bread will live for ever.’
Behold the bread
of angels, sent For pilgrims in their banishment, The bread for God’s true
children meant, That may not unto dogs be given: Oft in the olden types
foreshowed; In Isaac on the altar bowed, And in the ancient paschal food, And
in the manna sent from heaven.
*Come then, good shepherd, bread
divine, Still show to us thy mercy sign; Oh, feed us still, still keep us
thine; So may we see thy glories shine In fields of immortality;
*O thou, the wisest, mightiest,
best, Our present food, our future rest, Come, make us each thy chosen guest, Co-heirs
of thine, and comrades blest With saints whose dwelling is with thee. Amen.
Alleluia.
Lord Jesus
Christ the Bread of Life, feed me that I may live for eternity. Blessed be
Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Eucharist. Jesus I trust in you. Sacred Heart of
Jesus I believe in your love for me. Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for me. Saint
Joseph pray for me. God’s Angels and Saints pray for me. My Guardian Angel pray
for me. Protect me.
Pray your Holy
Rosary: Ave Maria. Hail Mary full of grace. Hail Holy Queen
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