A Johannine approach to the Eucharist

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We, too, can be transformed into bread broken for a world that hungers. Here is a short prayer based on a reading of the Gospel of John that I composed many years ago:

In the beginning was the Word
And the Word became flesh

And that flesh became bread;

Which has now become us

Broken for a united world

Returning to the source from it came

And so, after we come to the close of a long discourse in the sixth chapter of Saint John. Let’s recap on what we have heard, read and mediated in our hearts whenever we take the sixth chapter of Saint John into our hearts and minds:

Jesus feeds all of those who come to him (John 6:1-15)