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Today's Readings
Reading I
Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a
Moses said to the people: "Remember how for forty years now the
LORD, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so
as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your
intention to keep his commandments. He therefore let you be
afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown
to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread
alone does one live, but by every word that comes forth from the
mouth of the LORD. "Do not forget the LORD, your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery; who
guided you through the vast and terrible desert with its saraph
serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; who
brought forth water for you from the flinty rock and fed you in the
desert with manna, a food unknown to your fathers."
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20
R. (12) Praise the Lord, Jerusalem. or: R. Alleluia.
Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. For he has
strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children
within you. R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem. or: R.
Alleluia. He has granted peace in your borders; with the best of
wheat he fills you. He sends forth his command to the earth; swiftly
runs his word! R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem. or: R.
Alleluia. He has proclaimed his word to Jacob, his statutes and
his ordinances to Israel. He has not done thus for any other nation;
his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia. R. Praise
the Lord, Jerusalem. or: R. Alleluia.
Reading II
1 Cor 10:16-17
Brothers and sisters: The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a
participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it
not a participation in the body of Christ? Because the loaf of bread
is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one
loaf.
Gospel
Jn 6:51-58
Jesus said to the Jewish crowds: "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."
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."
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