Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.
We’ve heard a lot about food in the Friday Easter season readings so far. We’ve read about the time the risen Christ invited the disciples to breakfast after he had filled their nets with fish. We’ve read about the miracle of the loaves and fishes. And in today’s Gospel reading from John 6, we are reminded of the greatest meal and the greatest miracle of all: the gift 
of Christ himself to us, who by his resurrection and the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist continues to feed us all.
Consider today’s first reading, the story from Acts of Paul’s encounter with Christ on the road to Damascus. Paul could not eat or drink for three days. His life had been changed forever; he needed to empty himself of his old ways and his old thoughts. Food was probably the last thing on his mind.
Sometimes, it’s the same way for us. We forget about the great gift we have been given. Or we feel that by our words, thoughts, and actions, we have moved so far away from Christ that despite our ravenous hunger, there’s no way we’ll ever be deserving of feeding on him again. We think too much, we overanalyze ourselves and God, and we as Paul are unable to see.
Better, then, to go to the Lord as the little children he so desires us to be, confess our sins, and retake our place at the greatest banquet table of all, the Holy Eucharist.
