Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
READINGS FOR THE COMING WEEK:
First reading and Psalm
1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 Psalm 111
Alternate First reading and Psalm
Proverbs 9:1-6 Psalm 34:9-14
Second reading
Ephesians 5:15-20
Gospel
John 6:51-58
The gospel from John:
Christ, the true food and drink
Jesus said “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day, for my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which the ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.”