It is written in the book of the prophets : And they shall all have the Lord for their teacher. Everyone who listens to the Father and learns, comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except Him who comes from God : He alone has seen the Father.

“Believe me when I tell you this; the man who has faith in me enjoys eternal life.

“Your fathers, who ate manna in the desert, died nonetheless; the bread which comes down from heaven is such that he who eats of it never dies. I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. If any one eats of this bread, he shall live forever. And now, what is this bread which I am to give? It is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

Then the Jews fell to disputing with one another. "How can this man give us His flesh to eat? Whereupon Jesus said to them, Believe me when I tell you this; you can have no life in yourselves, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood. The man who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, lives continually in me and I in him. As I live because of the Father, the living Father who has sent me, so he who eats me will live, in his turn, because of me.

“Such is the bread which has come down from heaven; it is not as it was with your fathers who ate manna and died nonetheless; the man who eats this bread will live eternally.” (John 6, 41-58)

The promise of Christ to be the bread of life, and that “the man who eats my flesh and drinks my blood enjoys eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day,” - this promise becomes more easily understood at the Last Supper when He took the bread and wine and changed it into His own body and blood and gave it to His followers to eat and drink. But it remains a mystery that our minds can only accept with the special help that God gives to us.

Christ became the very food and drink of our souls to give us all the strength and courage we need in our daily lives and to find our way to the Father.

A RICH AND CHOSEN PEOPLE

The People of God are rich and have been highly favoured by Him. He has called them to Himself. He has sent His own Son Jesus Christ, into their midst. And that Son has paid the price of their sins with His own body and blood.

In Christ we have a way back to the Father. This is the Christ-Marg. Christ said of Himself : “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.”

In Christ we know that we are loved and wanted by the Father: “God so loved the world that He gave up His only begotten Son, so that those who believe in Him may not perish, but have eternal life.”

In Christ we have a wonderful new life. We share in God’s own life. We are made completely new. He said. “I have come so that they may have life and have it more abundantly.”