My Flesh is true bread and my Blood true drink. As the discourse on the bread of life progresses, Jesus invites his audience to transcend the immediate need the multiplication of the loaves served (relief of physical hunger) and see in the miracle an opportunity for changing their lives. By saying that his flesh is “true” food, Jesus is not implying that the bread that he multiplied was just an illusion. It was both real and necessary, and part of his mission. However, it was clear that the people had failed to understand that the multiplication of the loaves was a mere sign pointing to something else. If what interested them was just having their fill, then they were reducing themselves to beings whose needs are purely material. But this is not who they are. Their needs are more than material. The multiplied loaves of bread (as well as the manna) were real bread. But the manner ceased, as does bread (or any other food for that matter). It is in this sense that they (the food) are not true. In contrast, Jesus’ flesh is true food because it is everlasting, that is, it leads to God, the source of life. Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood remains in me and I in him. You are what you eat. This is Jesus’ building premise for this part of the discourse. In other words, he who lives on perishable bread will himself perish one day, but he who lives on that bread that never ends will have eternal life. You are what you eat. We have come to identify the Flesh and Blood of Jesus Christ with the Eucharistic meal which in itself is a sacrament (pointing to a reality greater than itself). The true Flesh and Blood of Christ is that which the sacrament of the Eucharist represents: the life of Christ. In other words, he who has truly partaken of the Flesh and Blood of Christ is himself be animated by the spirit of Christ. She who has been fed on the Flesh and Blood of Christ becomes an alter Christus because the live she now lives is not hers but rather of the Christ who lives in her (Galatians 2:20).