Sacred Moments

In John's Gospel, we have the immortal words of Christ promising us the blessed Eucharist. "He who comes to me will never hunger. He who believes in me will never thirst. I am the bread of life. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day. Unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I in him. My flesh is real food. My blood is real drink." These are extraordinary words and yet we read that many of the disciples could not accept those hard sayings and walked away and no longer walked with him. I wonder how they lived. Did they live, fulfilled, happy lives on this earth ? Did they miss him?