18th Sunday of the
Ordinary Time year B 5-08-2012
Theme Spiritual life.
1st Reading
2nd Reading
Ephesians :4:17-20, 24 New life in Jesus Christ.
Gospel John 6:24-35 Jesus the
Bread of life.
To live we need food.
Human beings have produced
food in various forms.
Farming is important
occupation.
Without farm produce one
cannot manage to live healthy life.
Though technically we have
become very progressive but with out cultivating our land we cannot produce
food.
There are various food habits
in human race.
Some eat solid food, some
liquid, some non vegetarian food and some vegetarian food.
Without food we cannot live.
God has taken care of our
sustenance by giving us food.
He told the first parents to
eat everything except the fruit of knowledge.
Then because of disobedience
God told the first parents to earn their food by sweat of their brow.
Christian religion we say is
a revealed religion.
The world where we live
people believe in a divine power which tells them that this power exists somewhere……
When human being tries to
understand this divine reality, religious beliefs emerge.
Old Testament enshrines in
the word of God today when we hear from exodus how Israelites tested the Lord
in the Desert.
The covenant which God
enacted with the chosen people says so many things.
Moses wrote how they were to
live a life that is for the Divine.
The covenantal existence
gives them various ways of performing their religious practices.
Here Moses gives details of
such activity.
And when they complained he
told them how Yahweh would provide them with heavenly food.
And in truth he did take care
of them with Manna and quails.
Today we are more dependant
on materialistic ideals than during the time of Jesus.
In the Gospel of today we
find people looking for Jesus not because they believed in his divinity.
But because they were taken
care of their earthly food.
Those people searched for
Jesus to find solace in material food.
In the modern world we see
much material comfort at the expense of our spiritual wellbeing.
The people who follow Jesus
and have become Christians lived various activities together.
Paul in the letter to the
Ephesians gives the believers a certain way that only a Christian can live by
following the principals laid down by him.
For the rest of the people
who reach this letter they are mere words.
Jesus has warned his
followers not only to seek him for physical sustenance but to be ready to know
something about spiritual needs.
Along with our physical food
we require also the spiritual food.
So we go to church to pray.
Prayer comes easily if our
physical needs are met.
Sometimes the physical needs
become the god and so we loose sight of the goal for which we are created.
In the Gospel Jesus clearly
gives us an orientation towards what he is going to share with us His body and
blood.
Ours is the only religion
which says that God has shred his life with us fully.
How happy are we who can eat
the bread of life and drink the blood of joy.
When we go back to fields of
activity let us go along with Jesus to be living bread to others.
I wish you all a very happy
Sunday.
Yours ever in the divine
word,
Fr. Juze Vaz svd
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