Jesus is not a ‘side dish’

Jesus is life-giving bread, not just ‘side dish,’ pope says.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Jesus wants to nourish the souls of those who are spiritually famished from the loneliness and anguish that come from life’s difficulties, Pope Francis said.

“What does he not want? To be relegated to being considered a side dish — he who is bread — to be overlooked and set aside, or called on only when we need him,” the pope told pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square Aug. 8 during his Sunday Angelus address.

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What are your thoughts on this?

Is Jesus YOUR bread of life?

A side dish?

Or have you never ordered?