Archive for 'Spiritual Nourishment'

Bringing the Paralyzed to Jesus

Luke 5:17-26 Is 35: 1-10/ Ps 85: 9-14 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.” (Luke 5:20) Repentance is what we must seek If we are paralyzed by sin. Pride keeps us bound, makes our faith weak If what needs healing lies within. One day, while Jesus was teaching inside [...]

Defining God’s Kingdom

Luke 13: 18-21 Rom 8:18-25 / Psa 126 ‘What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with? It is like a mustard seed which a man took and threw into his garden . . .’ (Luke 13:18) Like mustard seed or leaven dough May we be changed in mind and soul, [...]

Hunger for the Bread of Life

John 6: 52- 59 Acts 9:1-20 / Ps 117 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. (John 6:53) Nothing nourishes more than Jesus, And as precious as His Word we’re fed. In Scriptures we receive [...]

Nourished by the Bread of Life

John 6: 35-40 Acts 8:1b-8 / Psa 66 I am the bread of life. (John 6:35) Faith puts hope in the invisible, ‘Cause the visible leads to despair. Jesus as Bread is conceivable In the Eucharist that we all share. Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never [...]

The Bread of Eternal Life

John 6: 30-35 Acts 7:51-8:1a / Ps 31 I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. (John 6:35) What good are these bodies well fed If our souls are undernourished? It is Jesus the living Bread Who feeds us in [...]

The Food of Eternal Life

John 6:22-29 Acts 6:8-15 / Ps 119 Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal. (John 6: 27) Not on the food of this world be fed, [...]