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Doctrine, Dissent, and the Eucharist
On the Readings for Sunday, August 26, 2018 […]
John 6
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The “sheer contradiction” of the miracle of the loaves and fishes
On the Readings for Sunday, July 29, 2018 […]
Essay
You Have the Words of Eternal Life
“I am the bread of life…For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him” (Jn 6:35a; […]
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The New Manna is supernatural food given for supernatural life
Readings: • Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a • Psa 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 • 1 Cor 10:16-17 • Jn 6:51-58 In my late teens, I began to have questions about the beliefs and practices of the small Fundamentalist […]
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“My Flesh for the life of the world”: The Eucharist and Evangelization
The work of Jesus—His self-giving for the life of the world—is to become our work as well. […]
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You are Who you eat: “Let Christ be eaten…”
On the Readings for August 19, 2018 […]
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Recovering the fourfold sense of Scripture in John 6
The story recounted in John 6 is both miraculous and sacrificial, two things modernity rejects but to which the Church holds fast. […]