{"id":4010,"date":"2018-08-07T20:47:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batkol.info\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2018-08-07T20:47:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T20:47:55","slug":"nineteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ratisbonne.org.il\/bk\/2018\/08\/07\/nineteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (12 August 2018)
\n1Kings 19:4-8; Psalm 34:2-9; Ephesians 4:30-5:2; John 6:41-51<\/p>\n

Theme: Taste and see that the Lord is good (Ps 34:9)<\/p>\n

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\"\"When compared with other Psalms, the \u201cWisdom Psalms\u201d including Ps. 34, are \u201cmore conscious of God\u2019s presence in daily life\u201d; they convey \u201creflection and calm strength, with moderation and appreciation for the learning experience\u201d of each day (Stuhlmueller, 180). Urging us to taste and see the goodness of the Lord, these verses of Ps. 34 invite us to probe the quite disparate and somewhat dramatic readings from Kings, Ephesians, and John, to discover how the Psalm holds them together and illumines the insights they offer.<\/p>\n

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In Elijah\u2019s desperate flight from the wrath of Jezabel, through the desert, on route to Mt. Horeb, he is sustained by cakes baked on stone and a jar of water, provided by an angel. This passage functions, in this liturgy, like a prelude to the Gospel\u2019s theme of \u201cbread \u2026 from heaven.\u201d In the Gospel, Jesus does not appeal to Elijah\u2019s experience, but rather to the earlier tradition of the manna in the Exodus journey. Both attest to the place that bread from heaven has in the faith tradition of those he is addressing.<\/p>\n

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The selection from Ephesians calls us to be \u201cimitators of God\u201d (5:1) in a quality of life that is freed from all malice \u2013 bitterness, wrath, slander \u2013 in order to love \u201cas Christ loved us and gave himself up for us\u201d (5:2). This reference to the sacrifice of Christ is echoed in the Gospel\u2019s closing line: \u201cthe bread that I will give, for the life of the world, is my flesh\u201d (6:51).<\/p>\n

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The Gospel passage from John takes shape around the key question: \u201cHow can he now say, \u2018I have come down from heaven?\u2019 Is he not Jesus, son of Joseph?\u201d Jesus responds in the strength of his conviction regarding his identity as \u201csent by the Father\u201d (6:44) and \u201cthe one who is from God\u201d (6:46). Reinhartz (171) reminds us that the \u201cI am\u201d statements here, as in Ex 3:14, are expressions of divinity and so imply Jesus\u2019 unity with God.<\/p>\n

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Jesus clearly identifies those who are able to come to him: they are drawn by the Father (6:44), they have heard the Father (6:45), and they have learned from the Father (6:45). We cannot ignore the evidence here of the centrality of \u201cthe Father\u201d in the life and ministry of Jesus. Jesus\u2019 statement, \u201cthey shall all be taught by God\u201d (Is. 54:13) contributes to Brown\u2019s insight that the \u201cbread of life\u201d is, first of all, Jesus\u2019 teaching, his revelation.<\/p>\n

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John\u2019s treatment of the institution of the Eucharist takes a very different form than in the Synoptic Gospels. In Matthew, for instance, we find: \u201cJesus took bread, and blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, \u2018Take, eat; this is my body\u2019\u201d (Mt 26:26). There is no such text in John; instead, here in chapter 6, Jesus states: \u201cI am the bread that has come down from heaven (6:41), I am the bread of life (48), I am the living bread (51), the bread that I will give \u2026 is my flesh (51), whoever eats this bread will live forever (51).<\/p>\n

\nIn response first to Elijah\u2019s desert experience nurtured by an angel, and then to the Ephesians\u2019 call to be imitators of God loving as Christ loved us, and finally, in response to Jesus\u2019 promise of the gift of himself as the bread of life, we return each time to the Psalm\u2019s refrain, in gratitude, \u201cTaste and see the goodness of the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reflection and Discussion: 1. Think of a personal experience in which you have \u201ctasted and seen\u201d the goodness of the Lord. What has this taught you about your God and about the response God desires from you? 2. Recall an experience of Eucharist that meant a great deal to you. Why was it so significant?<\/p>\n

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Bibliography: Brown, Raymond, An Introduction to the New Testament, pp. 344-349, (Doubleday, New York, 1997); Reinhartz, Adele, Introduction and annotations for \u201cThe Gospel According to John,\u201d pp. 170-171, in Levine, Amy-Jill and Brettler, Marc Zvi, The Jewish Annotated New Testament (Oxford University Press, New York, 2011); Stuhlmueller, Carroll, The Spirituality of the Psalms, pp. 178-180, (The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 2002).<\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s Sunday Gospel Commentary was prepared by
\nDiane Willey, nds, M.A., Canada, Bat Kol Alum 2005, 2006
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