[Homily for 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B, Aug 16, 2015 / Prov 9:1-6 / Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 / Eph 5:15-20 / John 6:51-58]

“Make sure you chew your food well!” Most of us have either read this good advice or heard it first from our own mothers. To chew the food well aids digestion. “Take your time eating” is an additional advice to be heeded especially for those who gulp their food down. So where is this dietary advice leading us? Well the psalmist again this week reminds us to: “Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34). But the food we are offered as Christians is not just any old fast food. It is a food that nourishes and builds up.

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