[Grem] *****SPAM(5.2)***** Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, our Gospel today focuses on *St. John’s intense meditation on the
meaning of the Eucharist.* The tone is set with *the familiar story of the
feeding of the five thousand, the only miracle story mentioned in each of
the four Gospels*. This scene deeply affected the first Christians.
*Jesus instructs his disciples to have the crowd recline on the grass*. *Taking
the barley loaves and dried fish, Jesus makes a meal that satisfies the
enormous crowd. They are hungry, tired, and worn out from their exertions,
and Jesus gives them sustenance for the day.*
*For Thomas Aquinas, the great metaphor for the Eucharist is sustenance,
food for the journey. Baptism defines us, making us sons and daughters of
God; Confirmation confirms and deepens this identity; Marriage and Holy
Orders seal us in our life’s vocation*. These are sacraments offered once
at key moments in one’s life.
*Then there is the Eucharist, which is daily food, nourishment to get us
through the day-to-day.* How effective would we be if we never ate, or ate
only on special occasions and in a festive environment? Not very. So,* in
the spiritual life, we must eat and drink or we will not have the strength.*

*Imádkozzál érettünk, Istennek szent Anyja!  Hogy méltók lehessünk Krisztus
ígéreteire!  Könyörögjünk! Kérünk téged, Úristen, öntsd lelkünkbe szent
kegyelmedet, hogy akik az angyali üzenet által szent Fiadnak, Jézus
Krisztusnak megtestesülését megismertük, az ő kínszenvedése és keresztje
által a föltámadás dicsőségébe vitessünk! Krisztus, a mi Urunk által. Ámen.*
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