April 22, 2026 Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter Gospel: John 6:35-40
Today is Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter. We continue to listen to Jesus’ discourse on the Bread of Life.
We are often anxious about our daily food. At times, we must expend much sweat to earn enough to support ourselves and our families. This is because we are concerned with our earthly life and with perishable food—the sustenance that allows us to subsist in this fleeting world—rather than with that Bread which comes down from heaven and endures unto eternal life, as Jesus teaches us (cf. John 6:26–27).
We frequently regard what we receive from the hands of the priest during the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as merely ordinary barley bread and common wine. This is because we view the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ—consecrated by the priest in obedience to the Savior’s command and in continuity with His teaching—through merely human eyes. Thus, our thinking mirrors that of the crowd who approached Jesus in today’s Gospel: our knowledge of God remains superficial, not supernatural. Consequently, we perceive only ordinary bread and wine in the Eucharist, failing to see beyond them to the reality that grants deliverance from death.
In truth, when we receive the Body and Blood of Christ, the God who creates and governs all things comes to dwell in our hearts. He desires to converse with us in the depths of our soul. The Christ who comes down from heaven into our hearts does not seek His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him (cf. John 6:37). He enables us to live within the fullness of His grace, to renounce sin courageously, to reject the devil—the source of all evil—and all his works, and to clothe ourselves in humility, following Christ completely, so that through faith in Him we may attain eternal life.
Be present to your family, O Lord, we pray, and graciously ensure those you have endowed with the grace of faith an eternal share in the Resurrection of your Only Begotten Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever
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