On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, "If anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink."--St. John's gospel, chapter 7 vs 37.
Feasts are important to God. This is vital to understand when reading this passage in John. We must read it with spiritual eyes. The end of the feast, the "great day", Jesus stands! To the early Church, these words brought great hope! Jesus will stand on the last day and He will proclaim., "come to me all who thirst!" He said it then, and He says it today. The key to this is, "If anyone". Are you and I this "anyone"? We must ask Him to make us thirstier. We must plead with Him to give us the grace to want Him more than we do. When we receive Him, we must do so in faith, and with thirsty souls. When we enter into the Mass, we are joining with those in Heaven who thirst no more for they are home. So ask Father to grow your thirst for our Beloved Jesus. Everything else is loss compared to this.
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