He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, abideth in me and I in him.

"Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said:

This is of a truth the prophet, that is to come into the world."

John 6:14

Salve, amici. My heart has been burning beneath that particular passage since Wednesday, which occurred my Scripture Study group, that teaches how to study the scripture using contextual clues, certain parallelisms in the passages, and of course, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I also had the beautifully wise Hermendra give to me a book about the Apocalypse in a Catholic and Biblical judgement and light. I can't wait to read it, when I have the time to. I'm still busy with this marvellous book called Sophia House, and Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage (it's a Mormon view on Jesus), and also the Bible itself in my daily devotions.

I couldn't get myself ready today for Lent because my mother bought so many vegetables and packed them in our fridge, and she undoubtedly expects me to ravenously engorge them all. I would have to do it in only a few days if she expects me of such, because I will be starting a food fast except Sundays (I feel that fasting when the Bridegroom is present highly offending and even put off, because the Lord is with us on His resurrection day), and I wanted to keep myself trained so that I can make it through. But I guess my mother will have to finish it for me, because I am intent on doing this for Jesus. If Jesus did it, and my own Saint Kateri Tekakwitha suffered for Jesus to show her love for Him and as penance for sin, then why should I not do the same for Him as well? After all, He has saved us through His precious blood. Jesus expected from us to fast after He was gone. He said, 'when' you fast, not 'if' you fast.

But during my Wednesday Scripture Study group, we were studying parts of the New Testament, and we were talking about the importance of John 6 because it is the chapter of the Eucharist. The miracle prior to Jesus' teaching of the Eucharist. Because He was giving to His disciples that example and showing His power and might through the miracles of the multiplication of the loaves of bread and fish. Ever since I read that, and saw John 6:14, I realised how much Jesus was trying to make a point that there is better bread and fish than that. The fact that he prayed over the food, blessed it, broke it and gave it to his disciples is no random affair at all, and the miracle was so integral to open the eyes of the disciples of that fact that He Himself is the High Priest and Prophet of the Lord, the Only Son of God who humbled Himself through that bread and wine. Who would know of so much power in the scriptures, because every time one reads it, there is always something we read over that could have tremendous effect over what we think.

It struck me so much pensively, that I just quietened in awe and wonder, and of course, in love even more for the Eucharist, and why I stay as a Catholic. After all, the Eucharist, that bread of life is the summit of our Christian faith, and has been a tradition for the early Christians and lost as Protestant groups continue to divide and divide amongst themselves. Only the Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican and Lutherans and somewhat Presbyterians kept this tradition alive, believing in the Real Presence of Jesus and the Holy Spirit through the Eucharist, and no matter what sin I do, no matter how impious I may feel, His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity is for ever through the consecration of the host and chalice.

"If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever;

and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world."

John 6:52

Not only does this Holy Eucharist remind me of His bloody sacrifice for us to enter Heaven and for the reparation of that Original Sin that plagued mankind since our ancestors committed the sin of disobedience. There is so much wonder and beauty in the simple host of ours, and it truly gives life. Jesus Himself as our Sacrifice through the Eucharist, is beyond words. As the olden hymn has said, it is the Bread of Kings and Paupers...