The Bread of Life

Yesterday we celebrated First Communion for forty-eight of our fellow parishioners.  There’s just something instinctive in us when it says, “this is an important threshold,” that we mark the further initiation of these young children into our Christian community, and they receive the Bread of Life.

In the Gospel today, Jesus is trying to instruct His disciples that the Bread of Life is the important thing, not the bread that He gave the five thousand to eat.  It’s not the material that is so important, but the spiritual.  As we gather for Eucharist this morning, perhaps we can step back in a sense of wonder and awe in the gift that we are given.