READING Reading the Book of Proverbs 9, 1-6
Wisdom has built her house, / carved its seven pillars. / He killed his cattle, he prepared his wine / laden and his board. / He sent her maids to proclaim / the highest points of the city: / "Who is inexperienced to be here." / Who is void of understanding, she says: / "Come, eat of my bread / drink wine I have prepared. / Abandon inexperience and live, / go straight to the way of intelligence. "
PSALM Ps 33 (34)
® Taste and see that the Lord is good.
will bless the Lord at all times, always on my lips
his praise.
I will praise the Lord, the poor
hear and rejoice. ®
Look to him and be radiant,
your faces shall not blush.
the poor cry and the Lord hears
saves him from all his troubles. ®
The angel of the Lord
encamp around those who fear him, and frees them.
taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed are those who take refuge in him. ®
EPISTLE
First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 10, 14-21
Beloved, stay away from idolatry. I speak as to sensible men. Judge for yourselves what I say: the cup of blessing which we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not with the body of Christ? Since there is one bread, we, being many, are one body: all partake of one bread. Look at Israel according to the flesh: those who eat the sacrifices are they not in communion with the altar? So what I mean? That meat sacrificed to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything? No, but I say that those sacrifices are offered to demons and not to Now God, I do not want you in communion with the spirits, can not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons can not participate in the Lord's table and the table of demons.
St. Paul, in his first Epistle to the Corinthians, addresses, among others, an issue that divides the Christian community
so violent it comes to finding
behaviors consistent and homogeneous with respect to "eat meat sacrificed to idols" (
were apparently so all the meat sold to the market). Some Christians converted from paganism,
still had relatives and friends tied to pagan customs of pagan worship.
What to do? Participate in worship? Eating meat from from the market without
investigate?
In Corinth there are different opinions, but also between believers tear
due to different behaviors.
Paul makes it clear that participate in the award banquet idolatrous
a closeness with the deity's idol is: it's not just eating, but to implement,
through food, guidance, and a meeting of the divine presence in the faithful .
For the Christian is the same. St. Paul calls the value of the bread and wine are not only elements
indispensably linked to nutrition, but
acquire new meanings and references: the cup of blessing is loaded with references to the blood shed by Jesus on
cross, the bread and makes visible the body of this
Christ died for the salvation and unity of all people.
The only bread that is broken, as the Paschal Lamb shared by many, it makes all
a single body, so the Body of Christ becomes the body of the Church;
Christians who share the one bread become the Body given price.
Later, St. Paul, saying that full unity of the body is made
Spirit in Baptism and the Eucharist: "And in fact we were all baptized into one
Spirit into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all
drink of one Spirit "(1 Cor 12:13).
So Christians should not participate in the worship of idols. However
are not obliged to investigate any previous operations of worship, when they are
invited to a banquet. If you do not know the origin of the meat, do not worry
. But if they know it, then if they fail to
not offend the weakness of the faith of a brother or sister who might be scandalized
(10.23 to 32).
GOSPEL
Reading of the Gospel according to John 6, 51-59
at that time. The Lord Jesus said: "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread will live forever and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. " The Jews quarreled bitterly among themselves: "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?". Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily I say unto you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. As the Father who has life sent me, and I live by the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like what the fathers ate and died. Who eats this bread will live forever. " / Jesus said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
In the Gospel of John, Jesus developed in the synagogue at Capernaum
the meaning of bread distributed in profusion, "sign" which occurred over the lake.
In the first part of the whole discourse of Jesus is centered in two words: bread-faith.
In the second part, which we read today, it comes to bread-meat. _
Our encounter with Jesus is in faith: "I am the bread of life: he is a
me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst" (John 6.35): we must accept
Jesus and His Word. Our
_ encounter with Jesus is complete in a mysterious gesture, "
who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him" (John 6:54). So not only believe but also
chew (and the meaning of the greek word translated as
"eat").
_ The fundamental element of life is Jesus, crucified and risen. He adheres to
if you believe you eat and in its mystery, and if you join him and we feed on Him, if you
loves us and is embedded in him
_ eating him, the disciple dwells in Him (Jn Gv.6 0.56-15.4-10). And the whole life of Jesus
"pass" in their lives. It refers to the unleavened Passover bread.
Those who ate the bread "passed", was among the Jews Passover (Easter means
passage), commemorates the liberation from Egypt to the new land.
This text is linked to the first reading of the book of Proverbs.
When Jesus offers himself as "the living bread that came down from heaven" (Jn 6:51) and
insists, scandalized the Jews, the need to eat, it is not inconceivable
invited to cannibalism, but is presenting himself as
Wisdom invites all to his banquet and his school. He
the Son of God, the Logos, who worked as an architect from the beginning of
creation, is the only one who knows the meaning of the world and history and who can authoritatively interpret
. He has interpreted wise
existence with his life so different and so paradoxical. A life
surprising, shocking and fascinating, difficult to understand and imitate
, yet the promise of life that came from the wisdom of the Ancient Testament
found only in full and definitive life of
Christ, who have won the death through his resurrection. So really
the madness of the cross of Jesus was wiser than all the efforts
of human wisdom, and there is no other word on
in which we can hope for salvation. When John wrote his
Gospel, the disciples for many years now
celebrate the Eucharist (we're about 70 years after his death and resurrection). Therefore, through this gesture
, the Christian community lives with depth the presence of Jesus who died and rose again
, feels enriched by the strength and grace of his presence. It welcomes
whenever new wisdom to be lived in daily life as "bread of life
.
Roman Rite
In that Lk 16:19-31 Jesus said to the Pharisees: "There was a rich man, who wore dresses in purple and fine linen, and every day he gave lavish banquets. A poor man named Lazarus, was at her door, covered with sores, who longed to eat what fell from the rich man's table, but they were the dogs came and licked his sores. One day the poor man died and was carried by angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. According to Hades in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. So he cried out "Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of the finger and wet my tongue, because I suffer terribly in this fire." But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that in life you received your good things, and Lazarus his evil things: but now he is comforted in this way, but you're in agony. Moreover, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed so that those who want to go from here you can not, nor can there be up to us. " And he replied: "Well, father, I beg you to send Lazarus to my father's house, because I have five brothers. Admonish them severely, why not come to this place of torment. " But Abraham said, "They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them." And he replied: "No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will become." Abraham said: "If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if one rise again from the dead '"
Death, when it comes, puts an end to life and becomes a fixed point
to assess the quality of life for all of us. The contrast between the rich,
which Luke does not say the name, and Lazarus is deliberately jarring.
the suffering of Lazarus does not detract from the heart of the rich and this is his true
sin, than to be rich. If the suffering of his brother
touches the hearts of others, it means that this is a hardened heart, no longer able to
understand and discern what is happening. The view is blurred, in this case definitely
.
This parable that Jesus told the Pharisees, stages the hereafter, for
talk about what happens in this world. The suffering of the rich is because of
prayer to Abraham. But the rules of life of the hereafter are different from those
of this world: the finality of the situation of life is the real difference
. In this world there is always time to convert, but
death puts an end to this possibility. The rich
turns to Abraham that Lazarus go
to testify to his family what happened and why. But Abraham responds that there
hear the word of God present in Moses and the prophets, there is already all over the
needed to lead a good life: just read
carefully and put into practice what we have read.
But the rich know how tough a man's heart and personal experience
asks Abraham to send someone who is dead, so that his family
can actually know what comes after death. But Abraham, who has
lived a good life, and that he understands the human heart
personal experience, says firmly that if they hear not Moses and the prophets
, it will convert even the sight of Jesus risen from the dead .
fact Jews who followed Jesus are those who have accepted his
authentic interpretation ("Truly, I say ....") Of
word of God and have recognized in Jesus the one who lived to the end
the commandment to love God and neighbor, summed up the whole law.
The resurrection of Jesus is evidence of his good life: living well is because it is
that is risen, that he found true life. And that he did
listening to the word of God in those Scriptures, which we call the Old Testament
. They instruct us in the way of life that Jesus has shown us
in its authenticity with the words and deeds.
confess their faith in Jesus means to accept the kingdom of God which he preached and implemented
in the Paschal Mystery.
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