Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

In the Our Father we pray “Give us this day our daily bread.”

In the original Greek, the word “Daily” (epiousios) means “super-essential” or “super-substantial.”

This refers first to the Eucharist, the Bread of Life - that God provides in Daily Mass.

For Jesus said: I tell you most solemnly, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will have no life in you. Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. John 6:53-56

With this petition we ask Our Father to give us the Eucharist every day. He hears our prayer and answers by giving us the Eucharist in daily Mass.

St Faustina writes: “If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.”

Jesus offers himself to us every day. Come and receive the Bread of Life!