John 6:54 (WEB)
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Catechism · 6
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“It is Jesus himself who on the last day will raise up those who have believed in him, who have eaten his body and drunk his blood.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 5:24-25; 6:40, 54.
“Definitively "at the last day," "at the end of the world."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 6: 39-40, 44, 54; 11:24; LG 48 # 3.
The Anointing of the Sick
“This presence is particularly active through the sacraments, and in an altogether special way through the Eucharist, the bread that gives eternal life and that St. Paul suggests is connected with bodily health.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 6:54, 58; 1 Cor 11:30.
“It is the seed of eternal life and the power of resurrection, according to the words of the Lord: "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 6:54.
The Seven Petitions
“For this reason the specifically Christian sense of this fourth petition concerns the Bread of Life: the Word of God accepted in faith, the Body of Christ received in the Eucharist.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 6:26-58.
“Taken literally (epi-ousios: "super-essential"), it refers directly to the Bread of Life, the Body of Christ, the "medicine of immortality," without which we have no life within us.” — Catechism footnote: St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Eph. 20, 2 PG 5, 661; Jn 6:53-56.
Fathers and councils · 23
John Damascene
“And again, He that eateth Me, shall live.” — editor's note: St. John vi. 51–55.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Of this heresy Dadoes, Sabbas, Adelphius, Hermas, and Simeones were leaders, and others besides, who did not hold aloof from the communion of the Church, alleging that neither good nor harm came of the divine food of which Christ our Master said “Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood shall live for ever.”” — editor's note: Compare John vi. 54 and 51; the citation as before is inexact.
Read the whole comment“…of the Son of Man and drink His blood ye have no life in you” and “Whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life” “in himself” he adds.” — editor's note: John vi. 54
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Ambrose of Milan
““Verily, verily, I say unto you, unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, ye shall have no life in you.”” — editor's note: S. John vi. 54.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Some disciples of His, about seventy, were offended, and said, “This is an hard saying, who can hear it?”” — editor's note: John vi. 54.
Read the whole comment“After this address, too, his narrative is again borne on to one subject after another, in a sublime strain.” — editor's note: John vi. 22–72.
Read the whole comment“John, on the other hand, has said nothing about the body and blood of the Lord in this context; but he plainly certifies that the Lord spake to that effect on another occasion, with much greater fulness than here.” — editor's note: John vi. 32–64.
Read the whole comment“For see how those took scandal as from the sun, those carnal ones to whom Christ preached of His flesh, saying, “He that eateth not the flesh of the Son of Man and drinketh His blood, shall have no life in him.”” — editor's note: John vi. 54–69.
Read the whole comment“For such now also profess: Jesus has come near to them, has made salvation in them; for He said, “Except a man eat my flesh, and drink my blood, he shall not have life in him.”” — editor's note: John vi. 54.
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John Chrysostom
“John vi. 53, 54” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“For He distinctly says, “He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life.”” — editor's note: John vi. 54.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“And His language concerning His bread is an assertion that the Word took a body, for He adds, Unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, ye have not life in you.” — editor's note: Ib. vi. 54.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
“He is also Eliacim [ed. note: So Jerome, אל יקים “God will raise up”], that is, ‘God the Reviver,’ according to that, “I will revive him again in the last day.” [John 6:54]” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
““Eat ye my flesh,” He says, “and drink my blood.”” — editor's note: John vi. 53, 54.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The Jews not understanding what was the bread of peace, strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us His flesh to eat? Whereas they who eat the bread strive not among themselves, for God makes them to…
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The Jews thought that our Lord would divide His flesh into pieces, and give it them to eat: and so mistaking Him, strove.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
As they thought it impossible that He should do as He said, i. e. give them His flesh to eat, He shews them that it was not only possible, but necessary: Then said Jesus unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,…
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As if He said, The sense in which that bread is eaten, and the mode of eating it, ye know not; but, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.
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And that this might not seem addressed to them alone, He declares universally, Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life.
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And that they might not understand him to speak of this life, and make that an occasion of striving, He adds, Hath eternal life. This then he hath not who eateth not that flesh, nor drinketh that blood. The temporal…
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For it is not the flesh of man simply, but of God: and it makes man divine, by inebriating him, as it were, with divinity.
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There are some who promise men deliverance from eternal punishment, if they are washed in Baptism and partake of Christ’s Body, whatever lives they live. The Apostle however contradicts them, where he says, The works…
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By this meat and drink then, He would have us understand the society of His body, and His members, which is the Church, in the predestined, and called, and justified, and glorified saints and believers. The Sacrament…
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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §1001.
Cited together in Catechism §1524.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §1509.
Cited together in Catechism §1001.
Cited together in Catechism §2837.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §2837.
Cited together in Catechism §2837.
Cited together in Catechism §2837.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.10.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §1509.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 1:12–15 (Catena Aurea).