The 19th Sunday of the Year
Prov 9:1-6 & 12-15; Eph 5:15-20; Jn 6:51-58 (Year B)
"Wisdom has built herself a house, she has laid her table. To the fool she says, ‘Come and eat my bread and drink the wine that I have prepared. Leave your folly and you will live. Walk in the ways of perception.’ ”
The destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile devastated Israel’s surviving remnant. Gone was the self-confidence that had been so neglectful of God’s presence, its place taken by a humility that hungered for the reassurance of God’s presence.
