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AUGUST 2023 | DENVER CATHOLIC
"Lord, to whom
shall we go?"
W
e eat food in order to live. Jesus
offered himself as the "bread of life"
so that we could live a different kind
of life. We have a hard time imagining what that
different life looks like. When Jesus says, "I have
come that you may have life and have it abun-
dantly," (Jn 10:10) it is tempting to think of good
health, vacations and prosperity. Jesus didn't
need to die for us to live that kind of life, how-
ever. That may be what we want, but our desires
fall short of what God wants to give us.
How the Eucharist
Changes Our Life
DR. R. JARED
STAUDT
Director of Content
for Exodus 90
When we eat the flesh of the Son of God,
we enter into "communion" with him, a nour-
ishment strong enough to make us as one. He
himself is in perfect communion with the Father,
so much so that he lives from this communion:
"My food is to do the will of him who sent me"
(Jn 4:34). When we come into communion with
Jesus during Mass, he is offering us his own food
so that we can know his Father and live also in
communion with him. He passes on everything
that he has to us in the Eucharist. ⊲
E U CHAR I STIC LI F E
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