the true bread from heaven

“‘What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do? Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ So Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.’” (JN 6: 30-33)

As God’s children we can receive every day “the true bread from Heaven, which gives life to the world.” Our Lord, as the “bread from heaven,” keeps us alive and is an answer for all kinds of our hungers: the hunger to be loved, the hunger to be important to someone, the hunger for meaning, for respect, or just for attention. We can bring Him all our emptiness, and He will answer. “Whoever comes to me will never hunger.”

“I am the bread of life, says the Lord; whoever comes to me will never hunger.”