--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 5/10/11 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 5/10/11 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2011/05/10/daily-readings-reflection-for-51011#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 5/10/11 May 10, 2011 11:00:31 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionary # 274. Acts 7:51-8:1. Psalm 31:3-4, 6.7.8.17.21. John 6:30-35 [Today's Readings](http://usccb.org/nab/051011.shtml) Before receiving Communion, we pray the Lord's Prayer.  John's entire chapter six is centered on the multiplication of the loaves and fish and theologically on the mystery of Christ as the true Bread of Life.  It is John's profound reflection on what the Synoptic Gospels develop in the Last Supper.  The miracle is seen as a sign that leads people to believe and Jesus keeps reminding them through his dialogue and monologue in chapter six about the sacred (sacramental) meaning of Communion.  We may find an echo of the Lord's Prayer in the reference to the bread in the paragraph from John read in today's Eucharistic liturgy. The phrase that comes to mind is "Give us this day our daily bread."  This refrain is seen where Jesus tells the people that he is the living bread come down from above. He is their Manna that nourishes them in the desert of living one's life and needing the bread from above to sustain that life. The words of Jesus are alive with Wisdom and help us to probe into the meaning of the sign of the multiplication of the loaves and into the symbolism of the Manna that fed the people in the desert.  It is God, the Father of Jesus, who gives us his son Jesus as the Bread of Life symbolized by the heavenly manna that the people knew from the Exodus narrative. They were fed with bread from heaven and so are the Christians who receive the Bread of Life, Jesus. The daily possiblity of receiving the Bread of Life is contained within the Our Father: "Give us our daily bread."  We are to do the works of God by not working for bread that is perishable but for the Bread that comes down from heaven to which the sign of the multiplication of the loaves beckons. The work that God looks for is the active and lively faith of the heart believing in Jesus as our true Bread of Life. Jesus gives us his first "I AM" statement (ego eimi) in saying , "I am the Bread of Life!" We learn much from the Exodus about the Eucharistic wisdom of Jesus in this chapter six. The Old Testament  pseudepigraphy writing in 2 Apoc. Baruch has the understanding of the manna pointing to the Messiah. "the treasury of manna shall again descend from on high and they will eat of it in those years."  In another apocryphal work we read that the devout person "eats blessed bread of life and drinks blessed drink of imortality and is anointed with the blessed oil of imperishability." (Joseph and Aseneth). This is so close to Jesus' words and thought in John that Christians may have interpolated it into these works. Jesus will in the Johannine mystical approach keep ascending and developing the same thought as we move through the entire series of discourses on the Eucharist offered to us in this marvelous chapte six that complements what was said about Baptism in chapter three; here it is the Eucharist as sign, symbol, and sacrament given life through the words of Jesus as well as the sign of the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fish. No wonder that the fish became an early Christian symbol of Jesus .  The Greek word IXTHUS  symbolizes Jesus, the Christ, Son of God, and Savior by taking each of the Greek letters for one of these titles of Jesus.  Amen. 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