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The Catholic Calendar for Sunday, April 14, 2002 The Third Sunday of Easter Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word: Acts 2:14,22-33 Psalm 16:1-2,5,7-11 1 Peter 1:17-21 Luke 24:13-35 A reflection on today's Scripture: St. Luke, a physician and educated man, was not an eyewitness of Jesus, but rather a catechist who wrote his commentaries perhaps around 64-75 AD. By this time some of the euphoria of the early Christians may have simmered and Luke perceived the events that took place with a more critical and dispassionate eye than earlier chroniclers. Today's scripture centers around the two disciples walking to Emmaus and how they met but didn't recognize the Lord -- that is, until they prepared to eat and Jesus broke the bread and blessed it! Whereupon, Luke writes that He vanished from their sight. The two disciples immediately returned to Jerusalem and to the Eleven and found that the Lord had visited them too! The resurrection of Jesus from the dead as He promised is very central to our faith. He fulfilled this humanly impossible promise to prove once and for all that He is the Son of God, the Messiah, our Christ. It is mentioned rather offhandedly in the beginning narration today that "everyone" in Jerusalem was talking about "The Events" - the capture and crucifixion of Jesus. If they knew of these events, why didn't everyone believe in Jesus like the disciples? Many were converted, but still more were not. Did they shrug off such good news as an unwanted interruption to the good life they were living, caught up in the web of life? Are we not, in some ways, behaving like them? Just how deeply do we believe? How fully committed to Jesus in every aspect of our lives have we become? Lord Jesus, make your word plain to us, make our hearts burn for love when you speak. (Luke 24:32) - Joachim, ocds YOU CAN HELP to evangelize the Word of God: Please recommend our website to your friends and Catholic webmasters. The Daily Meditations appear online in English & Spanish at: http://homepage.mac.com/ojoachim3/DailyMeds.html ARCHIVED Meditations at: http://www.abcsoffaith.com/quiet/quietplace.html and at: http://www.mail-archive.com/dailymed%40saturn.nibcomp.com For ALL communications, including subscribe/unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (c)2002 The Way, The Truth, The Life. Permission granted to make reprints of the meditations or to post on any web page, except for profit. All scripture quotes are from the Douay-Rheims edition of the Catholic Bible. Full text from the New American Bible: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/index.htm Lives of the Saints: http://www.christdesert.org/public_texts/martyrology/ |
Title: Meditation: Sunday, April 14, 2002
