• TOPICS FOR TODAY.

• HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO John 6:45-49

• WHAT DID JESUS DO ON THE NIGHT

BEFORE HE SUFFERED?

•WHAT ARE THE DESCRIPTIVE

DEFINITIONS OF THE EUCHARIST?
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John 6:45-49

Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.Not that anyone has
seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say
to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the
manna in the desert, but they died ; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that
one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats
this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
Continuation …..

The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying,”How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to
them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not
have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the
last day.For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
remains in me and I in him. Just as the living father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also
the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven.
Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” These things he said
while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
• WHAT IS THE MESSAGE OF
THE GOSPEL
In John 6:45-46 Jesus said, "It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all
taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the
Father, comes to me. Not that any man has seen the Father, except the one who
is from God; He has seen the Father." Jesus quoted from the book of Isaiah in
order to give evidence to the teaching that He is making here about the fact
that no one can come to God unless they are first drawn by God. This time it
says that a person must be taught by God. If you haven’t learned something from
God, then you haven’t learned much about the true meaning of life. That’s why a
person who has been saved is a different person. When you meet God personally,
it changes your life. It’s God who reaches out to humans and touches them, and
communicates to them the truth of His existence and the truth of His great,
eternal love. This communication from God is a spiritual communication. It’s not
by an audible voice and it’s not by seeing Him, that He communicates with us, and
so Jesus said, "not that any man has seen the Father."
In John 6:47-48 Jesus said, “I say to you, whoever
believes has eternal life.I am that bread of
life." Evidently, it was important to Jesus that the
people understood that He was the bread of life,
because He kept making the point over and over; and
He kept telling them that the way to take in the
bread of life is by believing.
 
In John 6:49 Jesus said, "Your ancestors eat the manna in
the desert, but they died. This is the bread which comes
down from heaven, so one may eat it and not die. I am the
living bread which came down from heaven: whoever eats
this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give
is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
world." These people were seeking physical food from
Jesus because they saw what He did at the feeding of
the 5,000. The point that Jesus was making is that it
would be of a very limited value to give them physical food
in a miraculous way, because they would still eventually
die. It would be of infinitely more value to give them
something that would result in life that extends beyond
the grave.
Now we understand very clearly what Jesus was teaching in
John Chapter 6. We understand that Jesus made a comparison
between bread that we eat for food for physical life, and that
which Jesus said we must have for spiritual life, which is to
come to Him and to believe in Him.
“ I am the bread of Life- JESUS”
What did Jesus do on the night before He
suffered?

At the Last supper, on the night he was betrayed, our savior

instituted the Eucharistic Sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he
did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the Cross throughout
the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his
beloved Spouse, the Church:

• a memorial of his death and resurrection

• a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, and a bond of charity;
• a paschal banquet in which Christ is consumed, the mind is
filled with grace; and
• a pledge of future glory is given to us.
 EXPLANATION…

Holy Communion or the Body and Blood of Christ, which

is consumed during the Catholic Mass or Eucharistic
Celebration. "At the Last Supper, on the night he was
betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of
his Body and Blood, ... a memorial of his death and
resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of
charity, a Paschal banquet 'in which Christ is consumed, the
mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is
given to us.'"As such, Eucharist is "an action of
thanksgiving to God" derived from "the Jewish blessings
that proclaim – especially during a meal – God's works:
creation, redemption, and sanctification.
What are the descriptive definitions of the Eucharist?

1. many
The Eucharist was instituted by Christ. He prepared for it in
fellowship meals that he shared during his public life.
He established the Eucharist at the Last Supper, the night
before he died on the Cross. And he confirmed it as the Risen
Christ in his Easter meal appearances to his disciples.

2. The Eucharist is celebrated with Christ by the

Christian community, the Church. It is an essentially
ecclesial act, carried out” by the Mystical Body of Christ,
that is , by the Head and his members”
 What are the descriptive definitions of the Eucharist?

The Eucharist is at once both sacrifice and sacred meal. It is

3. the memorial instituted by Christ so that the saving benefits
of his Death and Resurrection can be shared by the People of
God through every age.

Christ himself is really present in the Eucharistic

4. celebration in multiple ways, but especially under the
sacramental signs of bread and wine.

5. The Eucharist is the eschatological pledge and

foretaste of our future glory.
• Other names for the Eucharist?

• The Lord’s Supper

• The Breaking of Bread
• The Memorial Of Lord‘s Passion and Resurrection
• The Holy Sacrifice
• Holy Communion
• The Blessed Sacrament
• Bread from Heaven
• Medicine of Immortality
Thank You For listening.

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