SOCL, Sunday19B
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- Aug 8, 2024
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Updated: Aug 9, 2024
Sunday August 11, 2024
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The concept of "eternal life" often brings to mind visions of an afterlife that may feel far-off and theoretical. However, the Gospel of John, in which the term is mentioned a total of seventeen times, provides a fresh and unique viewpoint on this matter. The ultimate mention of this phrase in John 17:2 hints at the idea that eternal life is not solely a future prospect but rather a profound quality of connection that commences in the here and now. This connection is characterized as unbreakable in Hebrews 7:16, suggesting that it surpasses the confines of our earthly lives and experiences.
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(John 6:41-51)
-Jesus gave the disciples a share in his Faith is reasonable but we cannot reason our way into faith. We have to be ‘drawn by the Father’. We have to be ‘taught by God’. What opens your mind and heart to God’s message?
-One thing which closes our minds to what another is saying is when we label them disparagingly, as the Jews did to Jesus. Have you ever had the experience of being surprised by the wisdom of another when you laid aside your prejudices about her/him to listen to what s/ he was saying?
-‘No one has ever seen the Father except the one who is from God’. As Jesus put a human face on God and God’s love, so God’s love for us today is mediated through one another. How have other people been sacraments of God’s love for you?
-The way in which Jesus became a source of life for us was by giving himself. It is when we truly give ourselves that we can be life-giving to one another. If we do not give of ourselves, what do we have to offer? How have you discovered the importance of self-giving, in yourself or in others?
Pray
God our Father and provider, whose Son has given his flesh for the life of the world, sustain your pilgrim Church on its journey with the word of life and the bread of heaven. Draw us nearer to him in whose name we gather, that, following his way of sacrificial love, we may come to the banquet of eternal life. Grant this through your Son, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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