{"id":210,"date":"2015-05-11T00:48:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T00:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2015-05-11T00:48:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T00:48:47","slug":"monday-may-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Monday, May 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orthodox Daily Devotional<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Scripture Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

JOHN 6: 56\u00a0<\/sup>He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57\u00a0<\/sup>As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58\u00a0<\/sup>This is the bread which came down from heaven\u2014not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.\u201d 59\u00a0<\/sup>These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum. 60\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this,<\/em> said, \u201cThis is a hard saying; who can understand it?\u201d61\u00a0<\/sup>When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, \u201cDoes this offend you? 62\u00a0<\/sup>What<\/em> then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? 63\u00a0<\/sup>It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they<\/em> are life. 64\u00a0<\/sup>But there are some of you who do not believe.\u201d \u00a0For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him. 65\u00a0<\/sup>And He said, \u201cTherefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.\u201d 66\u00a0<\/sup>From that time<\/em> many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. 67\u00a0<\/sup>Then Jesus said to the twelve, \u201cDo you also want to go away?\u201d 68\u00a0<\/sup>But Simon Peter answered Him, \u201cLord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69\u00a0<\/sup>Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.\u201d \u00a070\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus answered them, \u201cDid I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?\u201d 71\u00a0<\/sup>He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son<\/em> of Simon, for it was he who would betray Him, being one of the twelve.<\/p>\n

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Something to Think About
\n<\/strong><\/span>This is the clearest evidence in the Gospels that the bread and wine of the Eucharist in Divine Liturgy because the real body and blood of Christ: \u00a0not a memorial ‘in place of’ and not allegorically meaning his ‘teaching as food’. \u00a0If He meant that His teaching was food that needed to spiritually be consumed through study, why did many of his followers leave Him?<\/p>\n

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New Calendar\u00a0Saints<\/a> &\u00a0 Lectionary Scriptures<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Old Calendar Saints & Lectionary Scriptures<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
Scripture taken from the New King James Version. \u00a9 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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