Theme of the Day: The Bread That Gives Wisdom And Life
There are many different theories about the healthiest way to eat and diets that promote those theories. We can debate which is best, but what is undebatable is that whatever your diet, you are going to die. Perhaps a vegetarian diet is indeed easier on your heart. Still, your heart is going to stop eventually. But in his Bead of Life discourse, Jesus offers food that enables us to live forever.
There are foods you might never have tasted without someone working hard to convince you to try them. Likewise, this spiritual food that Jesus describes is something no one finds appealing at first, but distasteful. And so today Jesus explains that we need God to work within us, so that we have the wisdom to see that this food gives life and the faith to find this bread most delicious.
John 6:35-51
Proverbs 9:1-6
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
Psalm 111A
590 – O Holy Spirit, Enter In
633 – Speak, O Lord
642 – O Word of God Incarnate
700 – Draw Us to Thee
703 – I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
Prayer of the Day: Gracious Father, your blessed Son came down from heaven to be the true bread that gives life to the world. Grant that Christ, the bread of life, may live in us and we in him, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. Alleluia.