A time of lexio divina for the discerning heart.
Friday of the third week of Easter tide.
As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly.
For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the Lord.
Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you.
Become aware that He is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John, chapter 6, verses 52 through 59.
The Jews started arguing with one another.
How can this man give us his flesh to eat, they said?
I tell you most solemnly, if you do not eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood,
you will not have life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise him
For my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink.
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I live in Him.
As I, whom I am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father, so whoever
eats me will draw life from me.
This is the bread come down from heaven.
Not like the bread our ancestors ate, they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will
We taught this doctrine at Capernaum in the synagogue.
What word made this passage come alive for you?
What did you sense the Lord saying to you?
Once more, give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you.
The Jews started arguing with one another.
How can this man give us his flesh to eat, they said?
I tell you most solemnly, if you do not eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his
blood, you will not have life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise him
Where my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.
As I, whom I am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father, so whoever
eats me will draw life from me.
This is the bread come down from heaven.
Not like the bread our ancestors ate, they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will
He taught the doctrine at Capernaum in the synagogue.
What did your heart feel as you listened?
Did you sense the Lord saying to you?
Once more, through him, with him, and in him, listen to the Word.
The Jews started arguing with one another.
How can this man give us his flesh to eat, they said?
Jesus replied, I tell you most solemnly, if you do not eat the flesh of the son of man
and drink his blood, you will not have life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise
him up on the last day.
For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I live in him.
As I, who am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father, so whoever eats
me will draw life from me.
This is the bread come down from heaven.
Not like the bread our ancestors ate, they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will
We taught this doctrine at Capernaum in the synagogue.
I touched your heart in this time of prayer.
What did your heart feel as you prayed?
What do you hope to carry with you from this time with the Lord?
Let us now close with the prayer to the Father that Jesus gave us.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass
against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
