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 <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>today’s Gospel passage is one of the most shocking in the New 
Testament. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>Those who heard it were not only <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">repulsed intellectually</span>; 
they were <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">disgusted, viscerally</span>.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>For a Jewish man </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">to be insinuating</span> that
 you should eat </b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman""><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">his </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>own flesh and drink his blood </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>was about as 
nauseating and religiously objectionable as you could get.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>So
 what does Jesus do?</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>Does <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">he </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">soften</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">his rhetoric</span>? </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Does he offer a 
metaphorical or symbolic interpretation? </b></span>Does he <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>back off?</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>On the 
contrary, he intensifies what he just said</b></span>:<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> <u>"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."</u></b></span> As all the scholars point out to us, the verb
 used here in Greek is </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">trogein</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">, which indicates the way an
animal eats.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">So
 what do we do? <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>I</b><b>f we stand in the great Catholic tradition, we honor 
these mysterious and wonderful words of Jesus. </b><b>We resist </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>all attempts to
 soften </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>them </b></span>or explain them away or make them easier to swallow. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>We 
affirm, with all of our hearts, <u>the doctrine of the Real Presence.</u></b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br></div>
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