Category Archives: Daily Gospels

  Reflection: John 6:52-59 Understandably the Jews are deeply shocked at Jesus’ invitation to eat his flesh and drink his blood. It sounds like a primitive recipe for cannibalism. For the Jews, it was an abomination to drink blood because blood is the source of life. To come in contact with blood would mean, that […]

  Reflection: John 6:44-51 In the Gospel for today, Jesus invites those people who had seen the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves to upgrade their faith. He helped them recall the event of manna with which God had fed the forefathers in the long journey through the desert. Now he applies the symbol […]

Reflection: John 6:35-40 The crowd who followed Jesus had experienced the sign of Jesus feeding the multitude in the desert. They hailed him as a prophet; they wanted to force him to be their king, but … they preferred to remain a crowd rather than believing in him and becoming his disciples. This was an […]