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;...
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Yesterday, while writing an assignment for a course I’m taking on the basics of Catholicism, I was reading the Gospel of St. John, chapter 6; specifically, the section that is often called “The Bread of Life Discourse”. I got to the part where the crowd first mumbles against what Je...
The most significant contribution which has been made to the interpretation of this chapter is certainly that of P. Borgen. Borgen was the first to convincingly demonstrate that what is going on in the discourse of John 6 is essentially exegesis of the Jewish Scriptures, following patterns and p...
“The shift to both Faith and Works for Salvation! Father Nathaniel Mudd of the Fathers of Mercy explains that in the Bread of Life Discourse (John 6), Jesus says, “whoever believes has eternal life,” showing the necessity of faith. He then declares, “unless you eat the flesh of the...
of the bread and wine a conversion takes place of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of His blood. This conversion is appropriately and properly called transubstantiation by the Catholic ...
This pessimistic, often catastrophist dystopian mood and discourse on the “decline” of a Europe surrounded by enemies and besieged on all fronts by immigration, terrorism, “Islamism”, the economic competition of the US, China, or other bogeymen, coupled with a new sense of internal military...
topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces." —Étienne de la Boétie,The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude(1548)...
Parents were unwilling to surrender their children to the Catholic orphanages because they had to relinquish custody. Meanwhile, with the approval of the Episcopal Bishop Horatio Potter, plans were drawn up to create a formal monastic Sisterhood which became the Sisterhood of Saint Mary. In ...
First, in John 6:53, “Truly, 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.” Okay, what has Jesus added to the discourse? He’s added the phrase, drink his blood. As F.F. Bruce points out, this amplif...