For immediate release: Bread eaters to live forever

August 20, 2012

Yesterday, the First Family attended worship at St. John's Episcopal Church in DC. I'm on what I assume must be a very massive press advisory e-mail list from the White House Communications Office, which was kind enough to send out this short note:

The gospel in today's mass is John 6:51-58.

Jesus said, "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever ...

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