Sunday 11 June 2023 – MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST

+ From the Gospel according to John (6, 51 – 58)

At that time, Jesus said to the crowd:
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
Then the Jews began to argue bitterly among themselves: “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will also live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like what the fathers ate and died. Whoever eats this bread will live forever.”

Word of the Lord.