[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, we come today to the end of the extraordinary sixth chapter of
John’s Gospel. He has told his listeners, "Unless you gnaw on the flesh of
the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."We hear that
"many of Jesus’ disciples…said, ‘This saying is hard; who can accept it?’"
Knowing their murmuring, Jesus says, "Does this shock you?" Now, if his
words were meant in a symbolic sense, they wouldn’t have had this
explosive, shocking effect on his listeners. Given every opportunity to
clarify his meaning along symbolic lines, Jesus does nothing of the
kind.What follows from these words of the Lord is one of the saddest
moments in the New Testament: the Scripture tells us that most of his
followers abandoned him.But when Jesus asks whether his disciples will
leave, too, Peter speaks for the Twelve: "Master, to whom shall we go? You
have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced
that you are the Holy One of God."The Church, down through the ages to the
present day, has stood with Peter. Jesus is not one interesting teacher
among many; he is the only one, the one with the words of eternal
life—indeed, he is the Holy One of God. And he comes to us through the
flesh and blood of the Eucharist.*
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