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Raising us up as members of himself – Why Jesus gives himself to us as the Bread of Life
Our Lord had many reasons for calling his flesh the 'Bread of Life', and for giving himself to us under the appearances of bread and wine.
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
Those who have faith are the Father's 'gift' to his Son
Do you think of yourself as a gift given by one Divine Person to another?
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
How the Sacred Heart loves those whom the Father has given
The love that Jesus has for us is beyond our imagination.
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
Why some people believe – and some refuse
Even the clearest evidence is useless if someone closes himself to grace.
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
Nets groaning with fish – Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Before Simon Peter could become a fisher of men, Christ let him labour all night in vain – only to reward his obedience with more than he could manage.
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
How talk of the manna helped the crowd understand the Bread of Life
The crowd begin by quibbling, but appear to make some progress – but would it be enough to understand the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist which Christ…
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
Jesus worked miracles to draw out faith in himself, the one sent by God the Father
Faith in the one sent by God is the fundamental ‘work’ upon which everything else is built. Here’s how the miracles of the loaves pointed to this.
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
What miracles like the multiplication of loaves are supposed to achieve
When the crowd fail to respond to the miracle properly, they show Our Lord to be the New Moses in spite of themselves.
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
The multiplication of loaves pointed towards the Eucharist – but the crowd weren't interested
This was a miracle beyond relieving the extreme miseries Jesus had cured – and they took it as a sign they were to leave aside work and ordinary cares.
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
How Christ can demand faith in his teaching on the Eucharist
The temperament of the crowd is intrinsic to the way Our Lord taught them about this mystery.
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
How Jesus presented the Eucharist in the face of dulness and antagonism from the crowd
The temperament of the crowd is intrinsic to the way Our Lord taught them about this mystery.
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
God's love for sinners – Third Sunday after Pentecost
God loves those who seek repentance – and in fact, he himself seeks out souls to offer them this gift, so that he may receive them back into his…
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
How Jesus used the loaves to explain his doctrine to the people – and to us
Sometimes Our Lord worked miracles less connected to his teaching – but on other occasions, they were very deliberately linked.
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
How Our Lord gradually unveiled the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist
Jesus revealed, little by little and in response to the crowds' resistance, parts of the sublime doctrine of the Eucharist.
 • Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ
Father Coleridge Reader
Father Coleridge Reader
Gospel-focused spiritual reading, based around the liturgical year and the life of Christ, by the English Catholic hero Fr Henry James Coleridge SJ.
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