Good morning every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s holy Mass and our special welcome to all our parishioners, cottagers, visitors and everyone here today. Dear friends, every time we come to church we celebrate Christ who is the way, the truth and the life and every time we come to church, we celebrate Christ who is the beginning and the end and every time we come to church, we celebrate Christ the bread of life.


Jesus our Lord after feeding more than five thousand people with five loaves and two fish that were multiplied heard from people saying, ‘This is indeed the prophet and come let us make him king and He withdrew from them because that was not the divine plan. The divine plan was Christ had to undergo great suffering in the hands of people and to die on the Cross and thus by dying, he would destroy death and by rising would bring life everlasting for those who believe in him.

When people could not find him many of them went home praising and glorying God but some of people began to search for Jesus and thus they came to Capernaum where they found Him and saying to him, “Master, when did you come here and we were looking for you. Jesus our Lord who knows the hearts of the people looked at them and said, ‘you are looking for perishable things from me but I am here to give you imperishable things. I am here to take you with me to the father so that where I am you may be too. And those people who were looking for physical satisfaction, food came all the way to Capernaum and they stopped doing their every day chores to get food from Christ and Christ said, “perishable things can be found by any human person but imperishable and eternal life be given only by me.

In the time of St. Paul, a group of people especially in Thessalonica, stopped working and were going around influencing people saying, ‘Jesus is coming. He is coming to judge us so stop doing what you are doing and spread the news to all” st. Paul who heard this wrote a letter to people saying, ‘those who do not work should not eat. The Christ who promised that he would come will come but we do not know when he is going to come until then let us do what we should do. He will not give perishable things to satisfy us and the material things and all the perishable things that we see have limited lifetime and they all have to pass away. We should know how to hold on to non-perishable or imperishable things such as love, kindness, forgiveness and divine grace. Now we know why God does not grand us certain things. Instead of asking food, we should ask him enough strength to work, instead of a man or woman, we should ask him to give us love and forgiveness and good characters so that you will find that right person in life.

But our God is full of love and kindness and we are all so precious in the sight of God and the people who came to him looking for food, the ordinary every day people who did not want to work, Jesus used them as an instrument to give wonderful message to the world. When they asked what should we do to get bread of life, Jesus said, ‘I am the bread of life and those who eat this bread will never die but will have everlasting life. What we consider small and useless becomes so important and precious in the sight of God. For example, when we look for God, we always look up to heaven. Even right after the ascension of Christ our Lord, the Angel looked at the apostles and said, “ o men of Galilee, what are you looking up in the heaven. The Christ who was taken up into heaven will come back”. It is our human understanding to look for God in heaven. But only in Christianity it happened that God was looking up for man. Yes, when zachias was in the tree, Jesus the only Son of God look up for him and said, “ come down I am here and I am going to be at your house today’. most of the time, people get so confused and disappointed looking for God in far away places. But the God who sent His only Son, the God who showered upon us all the spirit of life is with us. yes, when we look for God among humanity, we will find divinity and life will bring more meaning.



In today’s gospel Christ says, the Manna that your ancestors ate did not give them life and they all died. Koran the holy book of Muslim also speaks about Manna, it was like fine, flake like things God gave to Israel to continue their journey in the desert. It did not remove their original sin; it did not bring divine happiness and joy. Manna did not give them courage to call God Father; Manna did not heal them physically and mentally. It did not teach them that God not a punishing one but on the other hand the bread of life brought some thing new in every one of us. Every time we eat the body of Christ we become new and wonderful.



Yes, dear friends, Jesus is the bread of life and as we begin to help and accept others, the living bread that is we eat every time we come to church will begin to nourish us. let us put our faith into practice and draw more spiritual energy from the bread of life that we eat. Amen.