August 8, 2021: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This Sunday morning I was in Miami, OK, where I stayed 10 years ago this past May for a night.  While there, I had dinner at the Buttered Bunns Cafe.  Featured there are these large bread buns served with meals.

To reconnect with that memorable meal, I went to that restaurant again for lunch a little while after attending Mass in town.

And how fitting it was to dine there, as we continue the theme of spiritual food in the Bread of Life in the readings today.

God tenderly cares for Elijah as He makes his journey through the desert while running from Queen Jezebel.  An angel comes to him twice and urges him to get up and eat, so that he may have strength for the journey.

His journey leads him to an encounter with God on Horeb.

In Jesus Christ, humanity encounters God.  In the Gospel reading, the people gathered with Jesus Christ can't understand how He is God present to them, and offering Himself as Bread from Heaven so that we who believe may have Eternal Life.

He is truly the One Who meets our greatest need for salvation as we reach out to Him by Whom we live.  And He continually sustains us so that we may live to imitate Him and show the kindness of God to one another as an offering with an aroma pleasing to God.