August 26 Ordinary 21B Ephesians 6 10 20 John 6 56 69
August 19 Ordinary 20B John 6 51 58
The first time my six-year-old son saw me breastfeeding his baby sister, he was amazed at the fact that food was coming out of my flesh. He was also impressed to see how desperately his baby sister looked for me when she was hungry, which was very often. One day he said, “It seems that all she wants to do is to eat from your body.”
August 12 Ordinary 19B John 6 35 41 51
On the first page of her book Prague Winter, Madeleine Albright writes:
August 5 Ordinary 18B John 6 24 35
I have an enduring memory of bread I ate when I was four. Jesus' bread also abides.