NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

 8/09/09            NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

                                                                        GOSPEL: JOHN 6:41-51

“I am the living bread that came down from heaven.”

In today’s Gospel Jesus makes an astounding promise.  He says, “Anyone who believes has eternal life.”  With such a prize it would seem that everyone should be busy about making sure they believe. Yet many doubt.

William Shakespeare challenges unbelievers to at least make an effort.  He writes, “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to attempt.”

Kahlil Gibran gives us a glimmer of hope when he writes, “Doubt is pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

The 16^th century English philosopher Francis Bacon gives us the most hope.  He says, “If a man will begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

                                                                                    Deacon Dick Folger