{"id":4323,"date":"2020-04-28T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2020-04-28T02:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:45:52","slug":"today-we-desperately-search-for-signs-yet-there-is-only-one-lasting-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4323","title":{"rendered":"TODAY WE DESPERATELY SEARCH FOR SIGNS, YET THERE IS ONLY ONE LASTING FOCUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u2018Sir,\u2019 they said \u2018give us that bread always.\u2019 Jesus answered:\u00a0\u2018I am the bread of life. The one\u00a0who comes to me will never be hungry;\u00a0whoever believes in me will never thirst.\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>(John 6: 34-35)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Picture1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Picture1.png 368w, https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Picture1-177x300.png 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>The people in today\u2019s Gospel (<strong>John :30-35<\/strong>) are looking for free bread, and ask for a sign like Moses had given centuries earlier to their ancestors: manna in the desert. Jesus takes it from there and invites them to recognize in him the sign by going beyond focus on physical existence to the gift of God that gives life.<\/p>\n<p>If they come to him they will have their hunger satisfied. If they believe in him they will never thirst for anything less.<\/p>\n<p>A theologian (Bultmann) described God\u2019s revelation as destroying every picture that the desires of a person\u00a0 invents, so that the real test of a person\u2019s desire for salvation is to believe even when God acts in a way that is totally different from what the person expected.<\/p>\n<p>St Eugene\u2019s life was guided by his hunger and thirst to live as God wanted, as he noted in his journal in 1833:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>There is no need of regrets when one has done one\u2019s best. God makes use even of human mistakes to achieve his purpose. I do not know what he expects of me; all I know is that he governs with his wisdom those whose sole purpose is to work for his glory\u2026 If God has decided differently, he will direct events and bend the will of his creatures in such a way as to achieve his ends.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today we desperately search for signs, yet there is only one lasting focus: \u201cThe one who comes to me will never hunger or thirst\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Sir,\u2019 they said \u2018give us that bread always.\u2019 Jesus answered:\u00a0\u2018I am the bread of life. The one\u00a0who comes to me will never be hungry;\u00a0whoever believes in me will never thirst.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0(John 6: 34-35) The people in today\u2019s Gospel (John :30-35) are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4323\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}