Wednesday, April 29, 2020

3rd Week of Easter, Thursday, 30-04-2020

Acts 8:26-40 / John 6:44-51 

Since we are spending a lot of time at home nowadays, some of us may have been looking at the devices and gadgets that we have laid aside because we have been too busy to fiddle with them.

So even without looking the instruction manual, we would sink our hands into those devices and gadgets and figure out the settings.

And for settings like cameras and video-cams, or trying to convert routers into range-extenders, which suddenly became useful in these times, even the instruction manuals may not be that helpful.

So we turn to the internet and hope to find some more information on what we are handling, but still it may not really solve our problems.

But there is none more helpful than someone who knows how answer the questions that are bugging us.

Just as in the 1st reading, the Ethiopian eunuch was wondering whether the passage from the book of Isaiah was about the prophet himself or was the prophet talking about someone else.

Then Philip came along and explained the meaning to him and he was enlightened and requested for baptism.

In the gospel, Jesus went a great length to explain that He is the Bread of life, and anyone who eats this bread will live forever.

And then Jesus said something at the end that is rather astounding - the bread that He shall give is His flesh for the life of the world.

For us who are so used to hearing this, are we able to explain this to those who ask us what it means?

It may not have crossed our minds that we may not be able to explain this adequately.

To be enlightened on the things of above, let us go to Jesus our Teacher. He will enlighten us on what we need to know and how to live our lives accordingly.