Today, I woke up sick and didn't get to go to Mass, so I didn't get to hear a homily, which is a shame because the Gospel passage today is one of my absolute favorites. I'm just gonna put my thoughts in blue. 


The Jews murmured about Jesus because he said,
"I am the bread that came down from heaven," You'd think that if He didn't mean that literally, He would have corrected them. 
and they said,
"Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Why, yes, He is. But only by adoption. 
Do we not know his father and mother? Right, because they were supposed to just walk up to everyone they met and say "Hi. Our son is actually the Messiah." They would have been stoned to death for heresy. 
Then how can he say, With His mouth. Oh, sorry, you meant "...why would He say..."
'I have come down from heaven?'" This part makes me think of modern atheists, mocking "the invisible man in the sky."
Jesus answered and said to them, "eek! He heard us?"
"Stop murmuring among yourselves. AKA: "Stop gossiping. You're being dense." Aren't we all sometimes? (Except for Jesus and Mary, of course)
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him,
and I will raise him on the last day. You'd think that this line would give naysayers of the Hypostatic Union a pause. I mean, if He's just a messenger, rather than God, wouldn't He be leading people to the Father, rather than the other way around? Also, wouldn't His Father be doing the raising of people on the last day? If He's not God, He's definitely blaspheming. 
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. I love this wording. Notice that He does not say, "Everyone who believes in Him," or even simply, "Everyone who listens to God." He says that you have to listen to the Father and learn from Him. You have to change after encountering the Father; you must actually make an act of the will in order to come to Jesus.
Not that anyone has seen the Father
except the one who is from God;
he has seen the Father. Ooh,  a paradox. Now Jesus is deep into talking about the Trinity and the murmurers probably don't even realize it. 
Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever believes has eternal life. So, you have to come to Jesus, then through Him meet the Father, then listen to and learn from the Father, who will lead you back to Jesus? Sounds like a strange loop, until you realize that "coming to Jesus" in this sense must mean following Him as a disciple, not merely coming to Him in person. So, I first encounter Christ as man in the person of the priest, who tells me about the Father. When I pray to the Father, He grants me the graces necessary to truly discover Christ in the Eucharist. The Eucharist? The Protestants doth protest. Where's the Eucharist in all this?
I am the bread of life. Right here. They were murmuring in the first place because He claimed He was "bread" that had "come down from Heaven." I'm still not sure how the Protestants don't recognize themselves in the murmurers. 
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, Ooh, Old Testament support for the Eucharist! :) but they died; Ouch, Jesus, way to put it bluntly. 
this is the bread that comes down from heaven Wouldn't He have stopped repeating it by now if He didn't mean it?
so that one may eat it and not die. Wait, did Jesus just say we had to eat Him and then we could live forever?
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; He said it again! Either He's crazy, or the Eucharist is the true Body and Blood of Christ. 
whoever eats this bread will live forever; I feel like they're standing there at this point, getting really confused. Maybe He's not meaning to directly connect His flesh to bread?
and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world." He said it yet again! There's no mistaking it this time - Jesus said that we have to eat Him, so that we can live forever. I would give everything I own to be able to see the looks on the faces of the Jews standing around Jesus, trying to figure out whether to stone Him on the spot for blaspheming or write Him off as a nutcase. I bet that most of them never considered that He might be telling the truth. 

I'm praying for you!

:)