MY daily reflection and prayer:
Thursday , April 14, 2016
Third Week of Easter
Dear my friends,
Here is the Gospel for us today according to St. John 6: 44-51
Jesus said to the crowds: “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw 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.”
This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.
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SINCE April 4th, we have been renovating a litle and simple room in Pudak Payung’s Catholic Church which is intended to be a Perpetual Adoration of the Ecuharist Chapel. Now we have at least around 240 people who are ready to be an adorator for the Perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist movement there.
I believe that they are sent by the Father who draws them to Jesus Christ as he has said, “No one can come to me unless the Father draw him.” So, they were doing so because of a gift of faith from the Father.
St. John Paul II prayed, “Please send down the Holy Spirit upon all peoples to give them love, courage, strength and willingness to respond to the invitation to Eucharistic Adoration.”
Father wants to draw us to his Son who is the living bread that came down from heaven. Jesus Christ says, “I am the bread of life. I am the living bread that came from heaven.”
Truly, since the beginning, Jesus’ birth took place in the town of Bethlehem, which in Hebrew (bêth-lehem), means “house of bread.” He was also laid in a manger, where food for animals would normally be placed. That is how God the Father always loves: by giving himself completely and without reserve through Jesus Christ, his Son, the living bread from heaven.
In the Perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist, we worship Jesus Christ, the living bread. There we ask him to help us value more the gift of himself in the Eucharist.
Let’s pray: Lord Jesus Christ, you have already become human just like us. Then you descend to an even humbler state of service to become food for our soul as the living bread. Help us to receive you in the Eucharist and to worship you in the Perpetual Adoration with gratitude, fully aware of your loving presence now and forever. Amen.
Kredit foto: Ilustrasi (Ist)
