25 August 2024 -- 21st Sunday “B”
Jos 24:1-2a.15-17.18b; Eph 5:21-32; Jn 6:60-69
Homily
Over the last four Sundays, we have read in the Gospel the long discourse on the bread of life, found in chapter 6 of the Gospel of John, where Jesus declares himself the living bread given to the world by his Father, and where he calls for total faith in his person and in his message. The epilogue to this discourse, which we read today (before resuming the reading of Mark's Gospel next Sunday), was a turning point of great importance in Jesus' ministry and especially in his relationship with the crowd of disciples who followed him, and in particular the twelve Apostles.