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Reflections of Family and Faith
"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
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In today’s Gospel passage, Jesus repeats His claim that He is “the Bread of Life.” It is a claim that the first disciples of Jesus would have connected with through Jesus mentioning an essential part of their diet. But on another level, Jesus connects to their heritage, for just as God sent manna from heaven to sustain the physical life of His people in the desert, so He has sent His Son Jesus to sustain the spiritual lives of His people from now until He comes again.
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Jesus explained God’s plan of salvation to Nicodemus by declaring that the story of Moses and the brazen serpent was a sign pointing to the Good News: the Good News that God would show His love for mankind by subjecting His own Son to suffering and death in order to save them all: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life” (Jn 3:16). This well-known verse is the summary of the Gospel message of salvation through Christ Jesus. This is the Good News in the Gospels.
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