“The ultimate food is this contemplative personal intimacy with the Lord...a real personal intimate encounter”

“The question is, do we let God draw us in, and do we embrace Jesus and let Him feed our soul, or do we take it all for granted, get lost in the distractions, and pass Him by?”

“So today as we are drawn to God in our lives let us be eager recipients of the bread we are offered and be signs of life for others”

“God is drawing us into communion with himself in our reception of the Eucharist, and with other people in our works of mercy. He wants us to do both as frequently as we can manage.”

“Let us not allow the voice of threat, the voice of suffering...and the many voices that challenge our commitment to the Lord to take precedence of the voice of the Lord which comes to us in quiet sleepy moments”

“Our life of service in mission asks nothing more of us than to journey with God’s people as ALL seek a dignified life free from oppression, hunger, violence and hardship”

“Sometimes we can only be moved if we are, like Elijah, deeply unhappy with the way things are, and are longing for a change”

“we must hide ourselves in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and find some peace there for ourselves rather than being eaten up with our own anger over evils sometimes truly suffered, and sometimes only imagined”

“We must know that Jesus is there all around us, even in the darkest periods and aspects in our life, waiting for us to call out for Him.”

“These remarkable farmers could never separate their faith from their work to improve their communities. They recognized Jesus as the bread of life. In turn they did their best to ensure that those around them had the bread and sustenance they needed in their own lives.”

“So what is wrong with murmuring? It’s a problem because it leads us to forget who and what we are, and more importantly, leads us to forget where we are heading”

“We still have the task of preaching the word and we may still have very positive reasons to fast and exercise self-discipline; but we have no reason to complain, no reason to doubt God’s providence”

“Love is not just a nice feeling. It is a radical loss of self-centredness, a transformation of our humanity.”

“We have here a sign (sacrament) of the life of the Spirit, through the Christ, enlivening his Laos — the Church”

“If we receive this bread from heaven, we become connected to the problems of this earth and to God’s determination to resolve them”

“I'm meant even now to eat the bread that prepares me for eternal life and it gives me strength for the journey”

“Lack of nutrition and proper exercise in the spiritual sense will be as debilitating to your soul as those things are to your body. We don’t feed the soul...the soul will hit the wall when it’s under duress”

“The bread that Jesus gives which is identical to his very life and substance, gives life in the fullest sense. Now, why, why? Because it links us to the source of life.”

“When we consume the Eucharist, we don’t make bread come alive, rather, that bread, that heavenly bread makes us come alive because, listen, it assimilates us to it...we are made into the body of Christ”