Luke 24

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Luke 24 by verse:

Luke 24:1-12

(Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-8; John 20:1-10)

Michael G. Brown, “When the Fog Lifts,” The Circuit Rider (January 1991)

“When the Fog Lifts”

[talking about Mary Joanna & Mary]
Now, mind you, they didn’t go out of faith but out of love. They didn’t go expecting to experience a miracle but to render a service. They didn’t go to see a risen Savior but to anoint a dear friend.

Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., “Alive to God in Christ Jesus,” Lovely in Eyes Not His, p. 41-46

Luke 24:13-35

Robert McAfee Brown, Unexpected News, p. 21-32
Frederick Buechner, “The Road to Emmaus,” The Magnificent Defeat, p. 82-89
Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., “If You Had Looked Into His Eyes,” Lovely in Eyes Not His, p. 47-52
Dom Helder Camara, Through the Gospel, p. 146

Through the Gospel

I was thinking about this one day when someone knocked on my door. It was a poor man. He had interrupted my meditation on the disciples at Emmaus: how was it they hadn’t been able to recognize Christ? To get rid of the fellows as quickly as I could I gave him a little cash, a smile and a good-bye. But the moment the door was shut I realized: ‘You’ve behaved exactly like the disciples at Emmaus. The Lord knocked on your door, he spoke to you, and you couldn’t get rid of the living Christ fast enough to return to your thoughts on the blindness of your brothers, the disciples of Emmaus.’

Thomas R. Haney, Today’s Spirituality , p. 189
E. Glenn Hinson, “The Road to Emmaus,” Weavings (November/December 2001), p. 32-38
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Half-way House,” Divine Inspiration, p. 550
Denise Levertov, “The Servant-Girl at Emmaus (A Painting by Velazquez),” Breathing the Water, p. 66
Denise Levertov, “Genesis (Abraham) and Gospels,” Communion, p. 479-492
Harold McCurdy, “That Day,” Divine Inspiration, p. 548
John Shea, The Hour of the Unexpected, p. 39-40
Samuel Terrien, “On the Way to Emmaus,” The Elusive Presence, p. 431-434

The Elusive Presence

[This story] plays on the interrelationship between the elusiveness of vision and the simplicity of eucharistic communion.  (p. 432)

The preaching of the Word leads to the acting of the Word, which is the offering of the self.  Both of them together open the eyes of the church.  The presence remains elusive, for sight is temporary, but faith takes over, fills in, and holds on.  (p. 434)

Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss, p. 9

My Bright Abyss

… Christ will appear on this earth as calmly and casually as he appeared to the disciples walking to Emmaus after his death, who did not recognize this man to whom they had pledged their very lives; this man whom they had seen beaten, crucified, abandoned by God; this man who, after walking the dusty road with them, after sharing an ordinary meal and discussing the scriptures, had to vanish once more in order to make them see.

Franz Wright, “Text and Commentary,” God’s Silence, p. 64

“Text and Commentary”

Your friends slowly walking, eyes downcast, a
little like Hiroshima’s strange
handful of unscathed survivors, the
road out of Jerusalem—

You appeared among them, walked alongside
them, asked them why they wept, yet for the longest
time nobody recognized You, nobody knew
who You might be

The road to Emmaus is this world

Luke 24:36-49

(Matthew 28:16-20; John 20:19-23; Acts 1:6-8)

Luke 24:50-53

(Acts 1:9-11)

Dom Helder Camara, Through the Gospel, p. 151
Denise Levertov, “Ascension,” Evening Train, p. 115

“Ascension”

Can Ascension
have been
arduous almost

Expulsion
liberation
last
self-enjoined task
of Incarnation.