Life process

There are some processes revealed in the texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary. Mike Cherney suggests that we will see how our faith in Jesus grows to transcendent action by following the texts in a backward sense from the Gospel of Luke where the two disciples on the road to Emmaus are dejected and depressed by the apparent loss of a beloved leader, through the assurance of the psalmist that God remembers those who seek Him, to the action of Peter in faith to bring healing to a man crippled from birth in the name of Jesus. Friar Jude Winkler comments on the process of evangelization of which the encounter for the disciples in Emmaus is the second stage. After the Resurrection, Friar Jude points out that we hear of Jesus Presence through the word of the “young men” at the tomb. This is our usual first encounter with the risen life of Jesus. Others tell us about Him and encourage us, like Pope Francis in his Easter message to “Come and See”. Like the disciples on the road, we often experience Jesus deeply in Word and Sacrament. Our hearts burn within us as Scripture is opened to our appreciation. We come to the Table and recognize the gift of Himself which makes us what we are in the breaking of the bread, that is the Body of Christ.  The third step in the process, when Jesus appears to be coming from everywhere and everyone as He appears in the Upper Room brings us to the possibility of living with the Truth of the Love of God present in all we encounter. Our relationship, then, with people and Creation itself is transformed and resurrected and we are able to perceive that fullness of  Life consists of our attention, like Jesus, to the Will of God.