All through August we depart from Mark’s gospel in the Lectionary and explore the analogy of

Bread and Body with John the Evangelist. The more Jesus asserts that he is the Bread of Life,

come down from Heaven, the more urgent the opposition to this teaching becomes. Even his

disciples begin to question it. “This teaching is difficult,” they observe, “who can accept it?”

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