...Ver. 53. Then Jesus said to them : Amen, amen I say to you : Unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. Ver. 54. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life : and I will raise him...

...redemption. Then Jesus said to them : Amen, Amen, I say unto you: Except you eat the Flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood; you shall not have life in you. He that eateth My Flesh, and drinketh My Blood, hath everlasting life : and I will raise him up in...

...flesh to eat : Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life : and I will raise him up in...

...its very source as the essential aliment of our spiritual life, "Unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of man and drink His Blood, you shall not have life in you" (John vi.) ; so, too, the graces of the other Sacraments flow from the same fountain. The Precious...

...separated from Christ's Body. ... He Himself warns us, saying, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you shall not have life in 850 you (6)." Therefore do we ask that our Bread, which is Christ, be given to us daily, so that we...

...says, to bring home to believers the real nature of His greatness: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you shall not have life in you."1 8. Therefore have no part in the food of the tambourine, God's poor mortal creatures!352 Seek...

...is either useful or beneficial, it is figurative. "Unless," He says, "you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you shall not have life in you t11)." It seems to command crime or vice; therefore it is a figure, prescrihing that there be communication...

...corresponds to this in the life of the spirit. Thus Christ said: "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you" (John 6:54). If man's life, both bodily and spiritual, were inaccessible to harm, this would suffice....

...necessary means of salvation. Jesus himself said in John 6:54: "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you shall not have life in you." Those words of Scripture would seem to impose a certain moral obligation on those who know about it...

...among his hearers, but Jesus insisted: "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you" (Jn. 6, 53). (c) The apostles understood that Jesus meant his words literally. St. Paul writes: "The...