{"id":4048,"date":"2018-08-15T20:01:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T20:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batkol.info\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2018-08-15T20:01:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T20:01:30","slug":"twentieth-sunday-in-ordinary-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ratisbonne.org.il\/bk\/2018\/08\/15\/twentieth-sunday-in-ordinary-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (19 August 2018)<\/strong>
\nProverbs 9:1-6; Psalm 34:2-7; Ephesians 54:15-20; John 6:51-58<\/strong>
\nTheme: Come \u2026 live and walk in the way of insight (Pr 9:6)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The context of John 6 is Pesach, the Jewish feast with its striking symbolism of the sacrifice of the paschal lamb and the unleavened bread. This is a significant teaching moment and Jesus brings to it his discourse on the bread of life. Our reflection on verses 51-58 is enriched by the Proverbs text that recounts Lady Wisdom\u2019s lovingly meticulous preparations for her banquet, a banquet which is \u201ca figure for the delight in sacred learning\u201d (Williams).<\/p>\n

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Lady Wisdom offers a place at her magnificent table to \u201cthose without sense\u201d (9:4), whom Kleinig identifies as those who are unformed\/uneducated and so are open to her influence. He notes the offer, the demand, and the promise that Lady Wisdom makes: her invitation to the table extends into her offer of a life of celebration and enjoyment with her; her demand is to set aside immaturity and accept her wisdom as the source and measure of maturity; and her promise refers to her way as the path to vitality and insight. Lady Wisdom\u2019s invitation: \u201cCome, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed \u2026 live and walk in the way of insight\u201d reverberates in the Gospel for today, where Jesus states:<\/p>\n

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Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood true drink
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Brown points out (346) that while, in the preceding verses (41-50), \u201cJesus is the Bread of Life in the sense that his revelation constitutes (the nourishment of) teaching by God,\u201d in verses 51-58, \u201cJesus is nourishment in another sense, for one must feed on his flesh and blood to have eternal life. The themes of 6:35-51 are duplicated but now in language evocative of the Eucharist\u201d \u2013 \u201cThe blood I shall give is my own flesh for the life of the world.\u201d In conclusion, \u201cJesus feeds his disciples through both his revelation and his Eucharistic flesh and blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brown comments that Wisdom is a very important motif in Johannine Christology (346, note 32). In Sirach 24:21, Wisdom identifies herself with the food and drink she offers: \u201cThose who eat me will hunger for more, those who drink me will thirst for more.\u201d Jesus too identifies with the bread he offers and makes of it a sign of his covenant: \u201cThose who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me\u201d (6:56-57).<\/p>\n

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Ephesians speaks to the quality of life within that covenant. Brown observes that \u201cwhile in Colossians the mystery revealed in Christ is God\u2019s plan for salvation for the Gentiles, in Ephesians the mystery is the union of Jews and Gentiles in the same Body of Christ\u201d (629, note 21). In Eph 5:10 the author advises: \u201cTry to discover what the Lord wants of you\u201d and then in 15-20 provides some direction to enable them to \u201crecognize what is the will of the Lord\u201d (17): \u201cbe filled with the Spirit, sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs among yourselves,\u201d and \u201calways and everywhere give thanks to God who is our Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d The spirit of thanksgiving finds its place at the table of Lady Wisdom, and permeates the relation of Jesus with the Father.<\/p>\n

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Reflection and Discussion: 1. Lady Wisdom counsels us to \u201clive and walk in the way of insight.\u201d What might that mean in your life? What might it mean for your faith community? 2. How is gratitude finding expression in your life now?<\/p>\n

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Bibliography: Brown, Raymond, An Introduction to the New Testament, pp. 344-349, (Doubleday, New York, 1997); Internet articles: Kleinig, John W., \u201cThe Banquet of Wisdom: An Exegetical Study of Proverbs 9:1-12\u201d; Williams, Gabriel, \u201cWisdom Christology and the Bread of Life.\u201d<\/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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