August 9, 2015: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Jesus declares Himself to be the Bread from Heaven, giving Life to the world.  Only by partaking of Him, the Bread, can we live forever, because He is the sacrificial offering by which we are cleansed in God's sight, like St. Paul writes in the 2nd reading.  So cleansed, our call is to live righteously before Him all our days, strengthened by the food that is He as we journey toward Eternal Life.