Jesus is amazing. There’s no other way that I can describe it. He is amazing, and He is gracious. I read the Gospel today and all I can think is “Wow.” Here, you can read it for yourself:
"Jesus said to the crowds:
'No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him on the last day. It is written in the prophets: They shall all be taught by God. Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my Flesh for the life of the world.'”
God gave His body for us. He gave us His flesh as food and His blood as drink. And He is so explicitly clear about it that it’s impossible to deny it without denying Christ Himself. Yes, it is a hard saying. Yes, it is difficult to believe. But if we truly trust that what Jesus said is true, we will believe that He gave us His body and blood under the form of food and drink so that He might be with us forever, and we with Him. He could not have possibly been more clear about this in both John 6, and in the Last Supper narratives, as well as in other places where He alludes to His being the Bread of Life.
As is touched on in the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles today, we need someone to instruct us in order to even begin to comprehend these mysteries. Thankfully, we have the magisterium of the Church to help with that. Along with leaving His apostles the ability to turn bread and wine into His own body and blood by the power of God, He also left them with evangelization skills and knowledge that could not be achieved without divine intervention. These things are still passed down even to this day by the Sacrament of Holy Orders (ordination)!
Jesus meant what He said. It’s undeniable. He continues to give Himself to the Church in the sacraments to this very day. He is here and He is constantly waiting for you and me to come to Him. We must never be afraid to approach Jesus in the sacraments. He is our one, true King, and He has established His Kingdom on earth in the form of a united, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, which remains strong even 2000 years after being established. Yes, it’s confusing. God is so beyond what our tiny human brains can even begin to fathom, But thankfully he’s given us a church to help to explain these concepts! Come to Him. He is waiting specifically for you! He is here, physically present to us in the most blessed sacrament in Catholic churches around the world. Our God is alive! Go and be with Him in Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament, receive Him at Mass. Meet Him in the confessional and have your sins washed away. He is waiting for you and loves you so much!
*If you have any specific questions regarding the Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament, please feel free to contact me using the contact form on the home page of this blog. I will try the best I can to answer your question or give you some resources. God bless you! -Catholic Teen
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