Archive for April 2009

A Matter of Faith

John 6:44-51
Acts 8:26-40 / Ps 66
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life.
(John 6:47-48 )
If we cannot believe the Word
That the Bread of Life has given,
How can we be worth the reward
Of eternal life in heaven?
“No one can come to me unless drawn by the [...]

Faith in the Bread of Life

John 6: 35-40
Acts 8:1b-8 / Psa 66
I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.
(John 6:35)
Faith puts hope in the invisible,
Though not visible we know He cares;
His love for us is conceivable
In the Eucharist where Jesus shares.
Jesus declared, “I am the bread of [...]

Sharing the Bread of Eternal Life

John 6: 30-35
Acts 7:51—8:1a / Psa 31
I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.
(John 6:35)
Who puts our Lord Jesus Christ first
Will never go hungry or thirst.
If we must seek true life instead,
We’ll find it in the Living Bread.
They (the crowd) asked [...]

The Bread of Eternal Life

John 6: 22-29
Acts 6: 8-15 / Psa 119
Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you.
(John 6:27)
Don’t seek God in signs or raptures,
Nor in material needs fulfilled;
Rather, find Him in the Scriptures,
The covenant that He has sealed.
The next day the [...]

The Great Commission

Mark 16: 15-20
1 Pet 5:5b-14 / Psa 89: 2-3,6-7,16-17
Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
(Mark 16:15)
Our strifes and trials when we preach
Are but a light cross that we bear,
But there’ll be more souls we can reach
If Christ’s Good News is ours to share.
Jesus said to the apostles, “Go into [...]

Gathered As One

John 6: 1-15
Acts 5:34-42 / Ps 27
Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.
(John 6:12)
The miracle of the loaves was when
Thousands on a mountainside were fed.
Today miracles still happen
When we receive God’s Living Bread.
Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (Sea of Tiberias), and a great crowd of [...]