I love the first reading from the first Book of Kings: 19:4-8
"Elijah went a day's journey into the desert, until he came to a broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death, saying: "This is enough, O Lord! Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers." He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree, but then an angel touched him and ordered him to get up and eat. Elijah looked and there at his head was a hearth cake and a jug of water. After he ate and drank, he lay down again, but the angel of the Lord came back a second time, touched him and ordered, "Get up and eat, or else the journey will be too long for you!" He got up, ate, and drank; then strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb."
The responsorial psalm is "Taste and see the goodness of the Lord"
The second reading is from the Letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians 4:30-5:2
Paul tells us "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were sealed for the day of redemption....and be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us ..."
The Gospel is from John 6:41-51
Agin we have Jesus telling us that He is "the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."
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