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This week continues the Bread of Life discourse in which Jesus once again tells the disciples that he is the living bread that has come down from heaven.
We believe that in the Eucharist we celebrate each Sunday is the crucified and risen Jesus Christ himself, drawing us to himself.
Sometimes God’s demands of us and God’s gifts to us seem to be too much. But they’re still acts of God’s love for us and have to be dealt with accordingly.
‘Every step I took on the pilgrimage seemed to not only bring me closer to Francis and Clare, but also to my mom.’
God’s people are not always satisfied with the leadership he sends them, but the people’s leaders come from God and must be received accordingly.
‘If living with less, even temporarily, helped me to understand the values of St. Francis a bit better, then it’s an experience I’m happy to have had.’
Emotional and physical pain are parts of life, but that doesn’t make them easy to endure. Sometimes prayer is the best medicine.
The Israelites complained about the food that God provided for them in the desert. It wasn’t tasty enough. They didn’t recognize or appreciate what God was giving them.
Whether or not we realize it, we are all truly blessed in some way. It is often in the individual day-to-day moments that we can find true joy.
Our possessions are not ours pure and simple. Everything we have is on loan to us from God, and is to be restored to him at regularly established intervals.
