Week XIV John 6:16-46 Jesus, The Bread of Life 2/5, Tues.

Overview

•6:26-34 Jesus: the bringer of the messianic gifts

•6:35-47 faith in Him is the food of eternal life

•6:47-59 Jesus is the bread of life

John 6:47
•What is needed first for eternal life?
-CCC161

John 6:48-50
•What are the difference in the reaction from recipients of these 2 breads?
•What did Jesus mean by “not die”?
-CCC1052

John 6:51-52
•Was the bread given at that time? When would it be given?
•What was the Jews quarreled among themselves about? Why?
•How did Jews understand about Cannibalism? How about blood?
-Lev 26:27-29; Ezek 5:10, Lev 7:27

John 6:53
•Why did Jesus call himself “Son of man”? Where did “Son of man” come from?
-Dan 7:13-14

John 6:54

•Guess what kind of “eat” St John used here? Why?
•What happens to those who eat his flesh and drink his bleed?
-CCC1038

John 6:55-59
•Is Holy Communion necessary for life?

Real Presence
•What’s our teaching about Real Presence?
Orthodox and Roman Catholics
-CCC 1374
•What’s the Protestant teaching about Real Presence?
-Lutherans: the Sacramental Union: "in, with, and under the forms of bread and wine"
-Anglicans: broad range of opinions
-Methodism: Real Presence as "Holy Mystery"
-Reformed (Calvinist, Presbyterian, most United churches): "Real Presence" as "pneumatic presence"
-Other Protestants: no Real Presence

Bread of life
•What are the significances of taking the body of Christ?
Body of the lamb
Spiritual life
You are what you eat
-2 Pet 1:4

Advanced questions
•Why should Jesus so ardently desire us to receive him in Holy Communion?
•Why do you think some Protestants abandon the teaching of Real Presence?
•How to defend the teaching of Real Presence?

-Bethlehem: House of bread
•How many other Christian traditions have also, in the last 300,400 years, walked away from the teaching of Jesus that is maintained in the Catholic Church? What’s the impact?