“Do you also want to leave?”
“I am the bread of life, the true bread, that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world” (Jn 6:32-33)...You hunger for this bread from heaven? You have it in front of you but you don't eat it! “But I told you that although you have seen me, you do not believe” (Jn 6:36). For all that, I do not reject you: has your infidelity nullified the fidelity of the Lord? (Rom 3:3) Look then: “Everything the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me” (Jn 6:37). What is this intimate relationship from which we cannot be excluded? A profound contemplation, a sweet secret. A secret that does not tire, free of the bitterness of evil thoughts, free from the torments of temptation and sorrow. Isn't a secret such as this the one that the faithful servant will be invited to share, as it is said: “Come, share your master's joy” (Mt 25:21)?...
As for him, you will not cast him out for you came down not to do your own will but the will of the one who sent you (Jn 6:38). What a great mystery! ...Yes, to cure the cause of all sins, meaning pride, the Son of God humbled himself and came down. Why boast, O Man? God humbled himself because of you. You might be embarrassed to imitate the humbleness of a man, then imitate God's humility. God made himself man; you, O man, recognize that you are a man: all your humility consists in recognizing what you are. It is because God wants to teach you humility that he says: “I have come to do the will of the one who sent me...I have come, a humble one, to teach humility as a master of humility. The one who comes to me becomes a member of my Body; the one who comes to me becomes humble...He doesn't do his own will but the will of God; that is why he will not be cast out as he was when he was proud.”
-Father Patrick Peyton