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Saint of the Day:

• St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen

Gospel of the Day:

John 6:53-60

The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying,

“How can this man give us his Flesh to eat?”

Jesus said to them,

“Amen, amen, I say to you,

unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood,

you do not have life within you.

Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood

has eternal life,

and I will raise him on the last day.

For my Flesh is true food,

and my Blood is true drink.

Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood

remains in me and I in him.

Just as the living Father sent me

and I have life because of the Father,

so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven.

Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died,

whoever eats this bread will live forever.”

These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

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Saint of the Day:

• St. George

Gospel of the Day:

John 6:44-52

Jesus said to the crowds:

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him,

and I will raise him on the last day.

It is written in the prophets:

They shall all be taught by God.

Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.

Not that anyone has seen the Father

except the one who is from God;

he has seen the Father.

Amen, amen, I say to you,

whoever believes has eternal life.

I am the bread of life.

Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;

this is the bread that comes down from heaven

so that one may eat it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven;

whoever eats this bread will live forever;

and the bread that I will give

is my Flesh for the life of the world.”

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Saint of the Day:

• Sts. Soter and Caius

Gospel of the Day:

John 6:35-40

Jesus said to the crowds,

“I am the bread of life;

whoever comes to me will never hunger,

and whoever believes in me will never thirst.

But I told you that although you have seen me,

you do not believe.

Everything that the Father gives me will come to me,

and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,

because I came down from heaven not to do my own will

but the will of the one who sent me.

And this is the will of the one who sent me,

that I should not lose anything of what he gave me,

but that I should raise it on the last day.

For this is the will of my Father,

that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him

may have eternal life,

and I shall raise him on the last day.”

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Saint of the Day:

• St. Anselm of Canterbury

Gospel of the Day:

John 6:30-35

The crowd said to Jesus:

“What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you?

What can you do?

Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written:

He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

So Jesus said to them,

“Amen, amen, I say to you,

it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven;

my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven

and gives life to the world.”

So they said to Jesus,

“Sir, give us this bread always.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life;

whoever comes to me will never hunger,

and whoever believes in me will never thirst.”

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Saint of the Day:

• St. Agnes of Montepulciano

Gospel of the Day:

John 10:11-16

At that time Jesus said to the Pharisees: I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth: and the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep: and the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling, and he hath no care for the sheep. I am the good Shepherd: and I know Mine, and Mine know Me, as the Father knoweth Me, and I know the Father: and I lay down My life for My sheep. And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

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Saint of the Day:

• Saint Stephen Harding

Gospel of the Day:

John 6:1-15

Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. 

A large crowd followed him, 

because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. 

Jesus went up on the mountain, 

and there he sat down with his disciples.  

The Jewish feast of Passover was near. 

When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, 

he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” 

He said this to test him, 

because he himself knew what he was going to do. 

Philip answered him, 

“Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough 

for each of them to have a little.” 

One of his disciples, 

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, 

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; 

but what good are these for so many?” 

Jesus said, “Have the people recline.”  

Now there was a great deal of grass in that place.  

So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. 

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, 

and distributed them to those who were reclining, 

and also as much of the fish as they wanted. 

When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, 

“Gather the fragments left over, 

so that nothing will be wasted.” 

So they collected them, 

and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments 

from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. 

When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, 

“This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.”  

Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off 

to make him king, 

he withdrew again to the mountain alone.