See the value in the Eucharist.

Man is constantly hungry, thirsty, unsaturated. The child is fed with a slice of bread; he feels the joy of the little things that his parents convey to him. He is happy when someone is close to him. However, this satisfaction does not last long.

The young man leaves his house, sees that his neighbor already has a bun with ham, his colleague is getting better, so he starts to get hungry for those things and starts to long for them and own them. And his appetite grows, he rises … He wants it because he thinks it will make him happy, he wants to match others.
The desire to own turns into a desire to control people because the objects are already boring, and they cease to enjoy. And hunger is coming soon, so it needs to be calmed because it’s a natural thing…

We know that even if a person has everything in one moment, he will find that he actually has nothing, that it does not make him happy. He feels deceived, weak, disgusted … He wanted to be fed up with things, friendships and finds himself dissatisfied and unable to explain himself. Then, one slowly reaches for alcohol, tries the effect of narcotic poisons, and feels happy and relaxed. But after sobering up, after leaving effective things, he feels even worse. If he heard it, it’s still good, but the opposite happens. It will change into a habit. He feels hungry. He knows that he hurts that it will not help him, the path of the week begins, the path to loss of health, the destruction of youth, the path to pain for even his dearest, and finally death. He wants to get rid of some hopelessness once and becomes a slave.
And yet, even in the most difficult state, something resembles an event reminiscent of the life of the prophet Elijah. The prophet is disappointed, afraid, asleep, and someone wakes him up: “Get up and eat, for you, have a long way to go” (1 Kings 19: 7).

This is what God has forgotten. Jesus Christ comes and wants to strengthen us, please us and give us only what has real value. Therefore, he says, “I am the bread of life” (Jn 6:35).

Not everyone will understand these words at the first hearing. Not everyone will understand them today. Some listen to them and enough. Others will understand them, but they will not put them into practice. Others will immediately take the opposite view, resistance. The whole problem with accepting Jesus’ words is that they think like people without faith, and Jesus speaks like God. To understand the content of Jesus’ speech, it is necessary to say that Jesus spoke to them in the language of faith, and they look at it only through the light of their reason. And here, we must see the root of all misunderstanding. To benefit from his words, we must first believe him and then live as He shows us. And this is the essence of today’s reflection on the gospel of Jesus.

Saturate – Saturation is the difference. Some people are nobody, and nothing is to the taste of it. They have their comment, opinions. Alright. But they do not lay hands on anything; they do not want to be criticized. The Lord Jesus’ teaching on the Eucharist is based on faith in the audience. Jesus tells us unequivocally that his faith is love.
“Don’t mess with each other! No one can come to me unless he is drawn to the Father who sent me. ”(Jn 6: 43-44). So it was with Abraham, Andrew or Peter, and many converts, such as Paul and Augustine, who lead many converts to each other, we do not know why he does this, but he will show his love to everyone.

It’s worse when someone rejects it. The Jews of today’s gospel not only rejected his love but did not cooperate with it. They sought intellectual evidence for everything, they were ignorant, and therefore they could not understand the teachings of the Lord Jesus about feeding their own Bodies. Another would have followed if they had opened themselves to his teachings if they had not looked at him only through the eyes of this world. They despised their Messiah. They wanted to live here on earth forever, and Jesus teaches them that after death, they will live forever. He tells them that the Father is sending him, and they see in him the son of Joseph and Mary. And so it is not strange that there was a misunderstanding between them and Jesus.

We are experiencing something similar. Our weak faith shatters everything. And the Lord Jesus wants nothing more than to strengthen our faith. He, therefore, gives us some evidence in this matter. One of them is this gospel. When we believe that Jesus is really giving us his Body, it will change the view of our lives, our thoughts, our deeds. When we see in the Eucharist a value that far exceeds all other values, persons, we find satisfaction, joy, simply what can saturate man here on earth.

When we approach St. Mass to the Sacrament of the Altar, it is a beautiful sight. There the brother stands next to his sister; age, position, figure, inner testimony, faith do not matter. Everyone can ask for what they need. Jesus does not obstruct him. And why all this? Although it is so beautiful, our goal is not this world but the state of bliss that we call heaven. And the earthly bread is not enough for us to achieve this state, but the bread that the Lord gives us. Yes, he who is earthly bread will satisfy his instincts only for a time, but he who receives the Body of Christ desires to live with Christ forever. 

I have a long way to go. The way we feel exhausted, tired, exhausted, but the bread – the Body of the Lord Jesus – gives courage: Take and eat!

This bread is a reinforcement not to be drawn back into the whirlpool of earthly passions, appetites that only deepen hunger, which widens the gap between what they want and what they do. The mystery of Christian victory over weaknesses is in the Body of Christ. Even at today’s St. Mass, we will hear a challenge: Blessed are those who are invited to the Feast of the Lamb! Yes, only those who are friends of the Lord Jesus are blissful and happy.