{"id":18549,"date":"2026-06-04T20:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/behold.mt\/?post_type=talba-bil-kelma&#038;p=18549"},"modified":"2026-06-04T21:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:41:35","slug":"my-flesh-is-true-food-and-my-blood-is-true-drink-2","status":"publish","type":"talba-bil-kelma","link":"https:\/\/behold.mt\/en\/talba-bil-kelma\/my-flesh-is-true-food-and-my-blood-is-true-drink-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Year A <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collect<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion,grant us, we pray,so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Bloodthat we may always experience in ourselvesthe fruits of your redemption.Who live and reign with God the Fatherin the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n<style id=\"kt-blocks_bea0fe-57\">.kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57 .kt-accordion-panel-inner {border-width:0px 0px 0px 0px;}.kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57 .wp-block-kadence-pane .kt-accordion-header-wrap .kt-blocks-accordion-header {color:#555555;background:#f2f2f2;border-color:#555555 #555555 #555555 #555555;font-size:18px;line-height:24px;border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;border-width:0px 0px 0px 0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:14px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:14px;}.kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57 .kt-blocks-accordion-header .kt-btn-svg-icon svg {width:18px;height:18px;}.kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basiccircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclosecircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrowcircle ) .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:after, .kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basiccircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclosecircle ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrowcircle ) .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:before 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.kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger {background:#ffffff;}.kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:after, .kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57:not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-basic ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-xclose ):not( .kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow ) .kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active .kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger:before {background:#444444;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-accordion alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-wrap kt-accordion-wrap kt-accordion-id_bea0fe-57 kt-accordion-has-19-panes kt-active-pane-5 kt-accordion-block kt-pane-header-alignment-left kt-accodion-icon-style-basic kt-accodion-icon-side-right\" style=\"max-width:none\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-inner-wrap\" data-allow-multiple-open=\"true\" data-start-open=\"5\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-14 kt-pane_77a649-73\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>First Reading <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p>First Reading<br>Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He gave you a food unknown to you and your fathers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A reading from the Book of Deuteronomy<\/strong><br><br>Moses said to the people:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cRemember how for forty years now the LORD, your God,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; has directed all your journeying in the desert,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; so as to test you by affliction<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; and find out whether or not it was your intention<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; to keep his commandments.<br>He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; and then fed you with manna,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; a food unknown to you and your fathers,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; in order to show you that not by bread alone does one live,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the LORD.<br><br>\u201cDo not forget the LORD, your God,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; who brought you out of the land of Egypt,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; that place of slavery;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; who guided you through the vast and terrible desert<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; with its saraph serpents and scorpions,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; its parched and waterless ground;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; and fed you in the desert with manna,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; a food unknown to your fathers.\u201d<br><br><strong>The word of the Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-15 kt-pane_b40407-96\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>Responsorial Psalm<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p>Responsorial Psalm<br>Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>R. :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u211f. (12)&nbsp;<strong>Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.<\/strong><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;or:<br>\u211f.&nbsp;<strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; praise your God, O Zion.<br>For he has strengthened the bars of your gates;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; he has blessed your children within you.<br><br>\u211f.&nbsp;<strong>Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.<\/strong><br>&nbsp; or:<br>\u211f.&nbsp;<strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br><br>He has granted peace in your borders;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; with the best of wheat he fills you.<br>He sends forth his command to the earth;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; swiftly runs his word!<br><br>\u211f.&nbsp;<strong>Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.<\/strong><br>&nbsp; or:<br>\u211f.&nbsp;<strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br><br>He has proclaimed his word to Jacob,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.<br>He has not done thus for any other nation;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia.<br><br>\u211f.&nbsp;<strong>Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.<\/strong><br>&nbsp; or:<br>\u211f.&nbsp;<strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-19 kt-pane_7b033e-e5\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>Second Reading<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p>Second Reading<br>1 Cor 10:16-17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bread is one, and we, though many, are one body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A reading from the first Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians<\/strong><br><br>Brothers and sisters:<br>The cup of blessing that we bless,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?<br>The bread that we break,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; is it not a participation in the body of Christ?<br>Because the loaf of bread is one,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; we, though many, are one body,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; for we all partake of the one loaf.<br><br><strong>The word of the Lord.<\/strong><br><br><strong>SEQUENCE<\/strong><br><br>The sequence&nbsp;Laud, O Zion&nbsp;(Lauda Zion) or the shorter form beginning with the verse&nbsp;Lo! the angel\u2019s food is given,&nbsp;may be sung before the Gospel Acclamation.<br><br>Laud O Zion, your salvation,<br>Laud with hymns of exultation,<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Christ, your king and shepherd true:<br><br>Bring him all the praise you know,<br>He is more than you bestow.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Never can you reach his due.<br><br>Special theme for glad thanksgiving&nbsp; &nbsp;<br>Is the quick\u2019ning and the living<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Bread today before you set:<br><br>From his hands of old partaken,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br>As we know, by faith unshaken,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Where the Twelve at Supper met.<br><br>Full and clear ring out your chanting.<br>Joy nor sweetest grace be wanting,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; From your heart let praises burst:<br><br>For today the feast is holden,<br>When the institution olden<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Of that supper was rehearsed.<br><br>Here the new law\u2019s new oblation,<br>By the new king\u2019s revelation,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Ends the form of ancient rite:<br><br>Now the new the old effaces,<br>Truth away the shadow chases,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Light dispels the gloom of night.<br><br>What he did at supper seated,<br>Christ ordained to be repeated,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; His memorial ne\u2019er to cease:<br><br>&nbsp;And his rule for guidance taking,<br>Bread and wine we hallow, making<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Thus our sacrifice of peace.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br><br>This the truth each Christian learns,<br>Bread into his flesh he turns,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; To his precious blood the wine:<br><br>Sight has fail\u2019d, nor thought conceives,<br>But a dauntless faith believes,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Resting on a pow\u2019r divine.<br><br>&nbsp;<br>Here beneath these signs are hidden<br>Priceless things to sense forbidden;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Signs, not things are all we see:<br><br>Blood is poured and flesh is broken,<br>Yet in either wondrous token<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Christ entire we know to be.<br><br>Whoso of this food partakes,<br>Does not rend the Lord nor breaks;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Christ is whole to all that tastes:<br><br>Thousands are, as one, receivers,<br>One, as thousands of believers,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Eats of him who cannot waste.<br><br>Bad and good the feast are sharing,<br>Of what divers dooms preparing,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Endless death, or endless life.<br><br>Life to these, to those damnation,<br>See how like participation<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Is with unlike issues rife.<br><br>When the sacrament is broken,<br>Doubt not, but believe \u2018tis spoken,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; That each sever\u2019d outward token<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; doth the very whole contain.<br><br>Nought the precious gift divides,<br>Breaking but the sign betides&nbsp; &nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jesus still the same abides,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Still unbroken does remain.<br><br>The shorter form of the sequence begins here:<br><br>Lo! the angel\u2019s food is given<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; To the pilgrim who has striven;<br>See the children\u2019s bread from heaven,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; which on dogs may not be spent.<br><br>Truth the ancient types fulfilling,<br>Isaac bound, a victim willing,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Paschal lamb, its lifeblood spilling,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Manna to the fathers sent.<br><br>Very bread, good shepherd, tend us,<br>Jesu, of your love befriend us,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; You refresh us, you defend us,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Your eternal goodness send us<br>In the land of life to see.<br><br>You who all things can and know,<br>Who on earth such food bestow,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Grant us with your saints, though lowest,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Where the heav\u2019nly feast you show,<br>Fellow heirs and guests to be. Amen. Alleluia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acclamation before the Gospel<br>Jn 6:51<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u211f.&nbsp;<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br><br>I am the living bread that came down from heaven, says the Lord;<br>whoever eats this bread will live forever.<br><br>\u211f.&nbsp;<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-18 kt-pane_d08bb5-ce\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\"><strong>Gospel <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p>Gospel<br>Jn 6:51-58<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2720&nbsp;<strong>A reading from the holy Gospel according to John<\/strong><br><br>Jesus said to the Jewish crowds:<br>\u201cI am the living bread that came down from heaven;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; whoever eats this bread will live forever;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; and the bread that I will give<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; is my flesh for the life of the world.\u201d<br><br>The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cHow can this man give us his flesh to eat?\u201d<br>Jesus said to them,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cAmen, amen, I say to you,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; you do not have life within you.<br>Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; has eternal life,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; and I will raise him on the last day.<br>For my flesh is true food,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; and my blood is true drink.<br>Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; remains in me and I in him.<br>Just as the living Father sent me<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; and I have life because of the Father,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; so also the one who feeds on me<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; will have life because of me.<br>This is the bread that came down from heaven.<br>Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; whoever eats this bread will live forever.\u201d<br><br>At the end of the Gospel, the Deacon, or the Priest, acclaims:<br><br><strong>The Gospel of the Lord.<\/strong><br><br>All reply:<br><br><strong>Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fad899\">Reflection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fad899\">This is a Solemnity, a great feast for the disciples. The chosen Gospel makes clear the Lord\u2019s intention when he established the Breaking of Bread (the Eucharist) as the meal of his disciples.<br><br>The Fathers of the Church speak frequently about this. I shall quote just one witness from the earliest period after the Apostles: Saint Justin Martyr (AD 151). Standing before the court that would condemn him to death, Justin made this powerful declaration about the most sacred meal of Christians:<br><br>\u201cAnd this food is called among us Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake except one who believes that the things which we teach are true, and has received the washing for the forgiveness of sins and for rebirth, and who lives as Christ handed down to us. For we do not receive these things as common bread or common drink; but as Jesus Christ our Saviour being incarnate by God\u2019s word took flesh and blood for our salvation, so also we have been taught that the food over which thanksgiving has been made by the prayer of the word which comes from him, and by which our blood and flesh are nourished through a change, is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnate Jesus.\u201d (First Apology, 66)<br><br>Therefore, what we celebrate at Mass is not a meaningless ritual, a mere representation, or simply a remembrance. It is the reality that Jesus himself intended when, at the Last Supper, he instituted this Meal as the Meal of his Body and Blood.<br><br>Because we have been baptised in the washing that cleanses from sin, and because we believe what has been handed on to us, you and I are able to partake of this Meal through which the Body of Jesus becomes our body and the Blood of Jesus becomes our blood. All this takes place through the working of the Holy Spirit, who is poured out upon the offerings of bread and wine, and through the power of the sacred words spoken by Christ\u2019s priests.<br><br>Do I recognise how blessed I am to share in this Meal?<br><br>Do I recognise the dignity the Father has given me when he baptised me with his Spirit and caused me to be born anew?<br><br>Do I appreciate that I am becoming the Body of Jesus when I receive the Body of Christ?<br><br>In his teaching on the Eucharist, Saint Augustine of Hippo tells us: \u201cBe what you see; receive what you are\u201d (Sermon 272). In Holy Communion, we become what we receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Prayer<\/p><p>Lord, grant that through the bread and wine made holy by the prayer of consecration, I may believe that you are truly present within me and that you have the power to transform me into yourself, if only I allow you to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14194,"template":"","rizors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v16.4 (Yoast SEO v16.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink - Behold<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/behold.mt\/en\/talba-bil-kelma\/my-flesh-is-true-food-and-my-blood-is-true-drink-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink - Behold\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Year A   Collect  O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion,grant us, we pray,so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Bloodthat we may always experience in ourselvesthe fruits of your redemption.Who live and reign with God the Fatherin the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever... 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