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We need to spend time in reflection of our day with our Lord, only then can we begin to see how He is always in our midst. Especially when are striving to live our call to discipleship.

It is only when our eyes are focused on ourselves or what we want to see that fear of the unknown my creep in. For when we focus on our Lord Jesus, His peace is always upon us. We do not see with our eyes but with our hearts and we believe.

Slowly He leads us to a deeper faith and understanding. With it comes the power and the glory of the risen Lord and through Him we can prophesy, Heal and much more.

Praise be to Our Lord Jesus Christ! Amen

FIRST READING
Acts 3:11–26

GOSPEL
Luke 24:35–48

The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way, and how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread.

While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them.

He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And he said to them, “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.”

Give me the bullet form, the summary or the outline! This is generally how we want our information, who has time to sieve through blocks of texts? Isn’t this the same approach we use for faith? When we approach Scripture? It is no wonder we don’t go very far in our faithlife, how can we when we have missed the point? When we pass over the treasures that lay deep beneath, and the deeper we might have delved the richer we would have been.

When two or three are gathered in His name whether it be to grapple with Scripture texts or matters of faith in today’s cultural backdrop. Are we still not assured of our Lord Jesus presence? He is always there! To guide us and lead us to a deeper understanding.

As we continue to grow deeper in our faith we will see that we have new abilities to do great things in a His name.

And If we listen with our hearts and open our eyes to see, we would recognise Him in the Eucharist! Yet another wonderful revelation in this sacred texts of today. Jesus had already prepared us for His departure and yet He assured us that He would always be with us. One of the sure ways He would do this is when He instituted the Eucharist. In this great mystery, He reveals Himself in the Eucharist while His human form vanishes. “And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.”

Let our hearts burn within us Lord as we strive to grow and go deeper into our relationship with You. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Amen

FIRST READING
Acts 3:1–10

GOSPEL
Luke 24:13–35

That very day, the first day of the week, two of Jesus’ disciples were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. He asked them, “What are you discussing as you walk along?” They stopped, looking downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place there in these days?” And he replied to them, “What sort of things?” They said to him, “The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him. But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this took place. Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his Body; they came back and reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was alive. Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described, but him they did not see.” And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the Scriptures. As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. But they urged him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?” So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the Eleven and those with them who were saying, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!” Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.