First Reading
The Book of Proverbs 9: 1-6
9:1Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars.
9:2She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table.
9:3She has sent out her servant-girls, she calls from the highest places in the town,
9:4″You that are simple, turn in here!” To those without sense she says,
9:5″Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
9:6Lay aside immaturity, and live, and walk in the way of
insight.”
Second Reading
The Letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians 5:15-20
5:15 | And so, brothers, see to it that you walk cautiously, not like the foolish, |
5:16 | but like the wise: atoning for this age, because this is an evil time. |
5:17 | For this reason, do not choose to be imprudent. Instead, understand what is the will of God. |
5:18 | And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, |
5:19 | speaking among yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and reciting psalms to the Lord in your hearts, |
5:20 | giving thanks always for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God the Father. |
Gospel
The Holy Gospel According to John 6: 51-58
6:51 | I am the living bread, who descended from heaven. |
6:52 | If anyone eats from this bread, he shall live in eternity. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.” |
6:53 | Therefore, the Jews debated among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” |
6:54 | And so, 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 will not have life in you. |
6:55 | Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. |
6:56 | For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. |
6:57 | Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. |
6:58 | Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so also whoever eats me, the same shall live because of me. |
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