Today Jesus says — “Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life”

What is this food?

We see a foreshadowing of it in the first reading….that word MANNA literally means “what is it?”
“… and in the morning dew lay around the camp. And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. Then the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.” (Exodus 16:13-16). When the heavenly bread began to rain down, in the original Hebrew the people of Israel asked: “Ma’n Hu?” {?מן הוא} – English for “what is it?” and that is the origin of the name “manna” (In Hebrew the name is “man” {מן}).“… and in the morning dew lay around the camp. And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. Then the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.” (Exodus 16:13-16). When the heavenly bread began to rain down, in the original Hebrew the people of Israel asked: “Ma’n Hu?” {?מן הוא} – English for “what is it?” and that is the origin of the name “manna” (In Hebrew the name is “man” {מן}).

We’ve been praying for this kind of food every day as Catholics, if we know it or not! “Give us this day our DAILY bread”…. the word dsaily comes from that Greek word Epiousios is an adjective no one quite knows how to translate, back all the way to Jerome

We say DAILY, but another translation is SUPER-SUBSTANTIAL or SUPER-ESSENTAIL …

Without it, we’ll die. It is essential.

In Gospel, it takes place right where we left off last week: the two fish and five loaves. The people thought that was pretty cool. Their bellies were hungry. So they thought, let’s follow this guy

Then Jesus says, I’m talking about a DIFFERENT kind of food. This is what will save you.

Without those who dedicate their lives to this FOOD, we will all starve to death

St John Vainney – no priest, no Eucharist

I pray for an army of young people who will take Jesus up on these words: ” “Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life”

I want an army of young men in the seminary who GET IT .. that the Eucharist is everything …. and who give their lives to JESUS and giving JESUS to the rest of us