The Bread From Heaven

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The Jews murmured about Jesus because he said,
   “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”
   and they said,
“Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph?
Do we not know his father and mother?
Then how can he say,
   ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
Jesus answered and said to them,
   “Stop murmuring among yourselves.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him,
   and I will raise him on the last day.
It is written in the prophets:
   They shall all be taught by God.
Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
Not that anyone has seen the Father
   except the one who is from God;
   he has seen the Father.
Amen, amen, I say to you,
   whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
   this is the bread that comes down from heaven
   so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
   whoever eats this bread will live forever;
   and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

~John 6:41-51

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Panis Angelicus: The Bread of Angels

Panis angelicus
fit panis hominum;
Dat panis cœlicus
figuris terminum;
O res mirabilis!
Manducat Dominum
Pauper, Pauper, servus et humilis.

The Bread of Angels
becomes Bread of men;
The Bread of heaven
puts an end to all symbols:
O thing most wonderful!
The Lord becomes our food
Poor, a servant, and humble.

Te trina Deitas unaque poscimus:
Sic nos tu visita,
sicut te colimus;
Per tuas semitas duc
nos quo tendimus,
Ad lucem quam inhabitas.
Amen.

We beseech Thee, Godhead One in Three
That Thou wilt visit us,
as we worship Thee
lead us through Thy ways,
We who wish
to reach the light in which Thou dwellest.
Amen.

~Composed by St. Thomas Aquinas