Bagels & Bible Study - Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ

<p style="text-align:justify;">The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ </p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Reading 1      Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14B-16A</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Moses said to the people: "Remember how for forty years now the LORD, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your intention to  keep his commandments. He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread alone does one live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the LORD.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">"Do not forget the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery; who guided you through the vast and terrible desert with its saraph serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock and fed you in the desert with manna, a food unknown to your fathers."</p> <p style="text-align:justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Reading 2       1 Corinthians 10:16-17</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Brothers and sisters: The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because the loaf of bread is one, we,  though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Gospel        John 6:51-58</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Jesus said to the Jewish crowds: "I am 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." The Jews  quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not h