This coming Sunday is the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Before we undertake our study of vv. 51-58, I would offer O’Day’s [605-7] comments as regards the place our verses have in the overall picture of chap. 6. Here she will argue against all the positions in the previous post – to some degree – and suggest there is intentionality and continuity with these verses within all of John 6: Continue reading →

This coming Sunday is the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time. 51 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.” 52 The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?” Continue reading →