Dr. Timothy O'Malley - Bread of Life Discourse: Jesus does not soften his claim. He doubles down. There will be no eternal life for you — no life to the full if you do not dine upon the flesh of the Son of Man. Eating his flesh and drinking his blood are necessary if we are to experience the resurrection from the dead. We Catholics forget this doctrine too often. We think about heaven as some distant land above us, as an escape from the here and now