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John 6. verse 55. "my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink" - This is not the language of symbolism. There are examples where Christ spoke about bread using symbolism (Jn 4:31-34 and Mt 16:5-12). The disciples interpreted him to mean real food. Note how Jesus shows them in plain language that He is only speaking figuratively. Contrast that with John 6. The disciples that were His audience had just the day before witnessed the miracle of the loaves. After Jesus spoke of his Body and Blood being real food, many of the disciples said this was a difficult teaching and left. Jesus did not correct a erroneous understanding as he did in Jn 4 and Mt 16. Instead he turned to the Apostles and asked if they were going to leave also? The acutal institution of the Eucharist occurs during the last supper. If Christ can die on the cross and then be raised from the dead, is it not possible he could provide his Body and Blood under the appearances of bread and wine?

He was standing there in their midst..He was alive ,not dead when the Passover meal was celebrated.

John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Jesus spoke to his disciples in symbols they understood...the bread....the Manna.....the blood...the sacrifices offered in the temple........The Shepherd an "unclean" individual in Jewish Law..also used as an OT example of the corrupt teachers and priests....the vine,the symbol of Israel,found over the door of the temple and on the coins

Eat my body.The Manna was a symbol of Me,He was saying..I sustained them in their wandering,I will give you eternal life He was the Blood about to be poured out as the sacrifice for their sins...He was the Blood of the Lamb on the altar......He called Himself living waters....like the water that flowed from the rock in the desert that was Christ..

He was showing Himself to a blind people . He was the Messiah written about in their sacred writings

We are to consume him.....we are to be filled with Him..not in a superstitious ritual,but in a daily communion with Him....."eat the scroll" (the word) take it into you "My word is life"

What do you make of this quote mom?

"I want you to know, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same supernatural food and all drank the same supernatural drink. For they drank from the supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ."

"I speak as to sensible men; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?"-St. Pauls 1st letter to the Corinthians

Seems St. Paul is saying that the Jews ate and drank a supernatural food, and that food was Christ. It wasnt 'the word' it was a food, a food from heaven, a supernatural food.

(Happy All Saints day!)