Daily Reflection 🇹🇹🇹🇹: Thursday June 4, 2026 - The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (A)

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00][bell] >> Friends, a blessed day to you all.

[00:00:03]Welcome to our daily reflection from the Archdiocese of Port-of-Spain in the Caribbean. We invite you [music] to join us now as we bring the transformative power of God's word into our own reality at this time. Come, spirit of truth.

[00:00:18]Come, >> [music] >> Holy Spirit.

[00:00:23]>> Our reading from the Holy Gospel according to John 6:51 to 58.

[00:00:30]Jesus said to the Jews, "I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever. And the bread that I shall give is my flesh for the life of the world."

[00:00:43]Then the Jews started arguing with one another.

[00:00:46]"How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

[00:00:50]They said.

[00:00:52]Jesus replied, "I tell you most solemnly, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you.

[00:01:01]Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life. And I shall raise him up on the last day.

[00:01:09]For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

[00:01:13]He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.

[00:01:18]As I, who am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will draw life from me.

[00:01:27]This is the bread come down from heaven, not like the bread our ancestors eat.

[00:01:32]They are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will live forever."

[00:01:39]>> Being consumed.

[00:01:43]Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.

[00:01:50]>> [music] >> I gain the new perspective on day 22 of how to be his by Father Jesse Man Go and father Ignatius John Schryers.

[00:01:59]When I read John Tauler consuming and being consumed I reflected on being [music] consumed.

[00:02:10]I now see that in the current reality experienced by many of us.

[00:02:15]We are being consumed.

[00:02:17]Not chewed up [music] and munched on by God.

[00:02:23]When we are painfully and continuously stripped of pride, self-absorption, old habits, thought patterns and behaviors.

[00:02:33]The dying of old self.

[00:02:37]When in times of trauma, doubt, confusion, uncertainty and waiting we are forced to depend on God alone and not cling stubbornly to self-reliance.

[00:02:51]In the hardships and trials [music] God uses to purify us. So Christ may live more fully in us and we in him.

[00:03:01]On this feast [music] of Corpus Christi in Tauler's words I pray for trustful and loving surrender to the Lord.

[00:03:11]The key in allowing ourselves to be consumed and more fully transformed by these God-ordained trials in our lives.

[00:03:20]Amen.

[00:03:24]>> We bow our heads.

[00:03:25]>> [music] >> Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, it's now and ever shall be a world without end.

[00:03:36]The Lord be with you.

[00:03:37]>> And with your spirit.

[00:03:38]>> May almighty God bless you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. May come down upon you, remain with you, preserve you from that evil one and grant you everlasting life.

[00:03:52]And the people of God say, amen.

[00:03:56]Do have a blessed and pleasant day.