Living Our Faith: Food and faith

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Assortment of breadThere is an ever-growing “food culture” today. The constant barrage of food advertisement, blogs and television shows fuel a “food obsession.”
Yet food connects us to our beliefs, communities, ancestors. “Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life,” Christ says.
Food seen in Scripture is often a prefigurement of the Eucharist, the bread of life.