20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (2)

While I was in Boston for my studies a couple of years ago I took the opportunity to go and watch the famous Boston Marathon. Luckily for me, the marathon route passed by only a couple of streets up from the Jesuit community where I was staying. I had also discovered that …

For the past 3 weeks, our gospel has come from the 6th chapter of John, the bread of life discourse, widely considered by many to have Eucharistic overtones. Today’s gospel is considered by scholars to be the most explicitly Eucharistic of all the sections in chapter six. …