Ex 16:2-4.12-15; Ps 77 (78); Eph 4:17.20-24; Jn 6:24-35

The crowds find Jesus “beyond the Sea” and interrogate him: “Rabbi, when did you come here?” (Jn 6.25). This geographical passage evokes another passage, more radical and profound, which questions our research. What do we really seek? What desire animates our lives? We seek a bread that is limited to satisfy the need of our existence, or a food that constrains us to make an exodus from our most immediate necessities, to sustain us on the path to that happy fulfillment, that full and lasting joy, which transcends The horizon, often so cramped, of our needs? Jesus satiates our desire to be always returning again to ask ourselves: what are you looking for? Don’t stop looking again. Always go back to the other side. Don’t let the satiety of today prevent you from tomorrow’s journey. What he gives us is a bread that, as Paul writes to the Ephesians, renews us in
spirit and mind, supporting us in the passage from the old man to the new man. Like the manna of the exodus, the bread of Jesus remains an open question: “What is it?”. What am I really seeking?
Not a bread that I am satisfied with, but a meeting with a person – Jesus – who questions and worries me.