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Today we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Peace to be with you.

Friends, you know during the B cycle of readings for the liturgical year we always have

this section during the summertime we read I think it's for five weeks I think it's

five weeks from the sixth chapter of John's Gospel, which is all about the Eucharist.

Now here's the interesting thing, everybody. In John's Gospel, there's an account of the

last supper, but there's no mention in that account of what we call the institution

narrative. That means the little recounting of what Jesus did with the bread and the wine

and so on, which you find in the synoptic

Gospels. John has the economy the last supper but we find there the washing of

the feed of the disciples and then we have this long discourse by Jesus but no institution

narrative. People have been sometimes puzzled. Well why would that be missing in

John I mean which is the most mystical of the four Gospels.

Well, here's a short answer.

It's missing there only because in the sixth chapter of John,

we have a deeply and intensely eucharistic theology. John develops his

eucharistic theology in this chapter six. Can I recommend to you everybody take out your Bibles and just open to

John chapter 6. Read the whole thing. It's not that long. There's no better, no more

intense reflection on the Eucharist than there.

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