Gospel Reflections for August 26 2018 Will you stay or leave? Today is the final week of several Sundays that feature Jesus teaching about the Eucharist. In each week Jesus speaks to large crowds, and yet some still find it hard to accept. But notice what the crowd does at the end of His speech, […]

Gospel Reflections for August 19 2018 Things that last Jesus said to the crowds: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever… What are we to make of this? In an age when food supplies often ran out and famine was frequent, it must have sounded […]

Gospel Reflections for August 12 2018 Receive the Body of Christ This is the next of several Gospel readings in a row about the Eucharist, the Body and Blood of Jesus we receive at communion time. Jesus is making His case over and over again that this is the main event that He designed in […]

Gospel Reflections for August 5 2018 You are what you eat. Nutritionists have been making that claim for some time. The food you eat every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (and even all those snacks!) become part of your body. Everything you eat eventually makes up the cells that make your body work …and […]

Gospel Reflections for July 29 2018 Jesus sees what we often miss. Our Lord speaks to several thousand people in today’s Gospel …but they are hungry and most have no food. The Apostles notice not only those who don’t have food …they notice who does …one lone small boy. When people experience a shortage of […]