[ Today's Readings ]
Peter said, "I have neither silver nor gold,
but what I do have I give you:
in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, rise and walk."
We receive something more important from Jesus than silver or gold. We receive freedom of Spirit. We are made able to walk by the Spirit.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh (see Galatians 5:16).
Our response should be like that of the beggar.
He leaped up, stood, and walked around,
and went into the temple with them,
walking and jumping and praising God.
We need not be downcast like the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Jesus remains with his people!
But they urged him, "Stay with us,
for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over."
Even as darkness draws near, Jesus does remain with us. His power is present to us in Peter and John, that is, in his Church. He speaks to us in the Scriptures.
"Were not our hearts burning within us
while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?"
He heals our lameness by his presence in the Eucharist and the other Sacraments.
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.
The blessings of the Resurrection are available to us. The Spirit of the Risen LORD dwells in our hearts and wants to do so more and more. Let us pray:
"Stay with us,
for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over."
If we walk off from Easter without this power we quickly collapse. We aren't meant to do this on our own. Let us plead:
"Stay with us,
for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over."
When we invite him he comes, for we find that he is already with us, knocking on the doors of our hearts, waiting for us to let him in.
Glory in his holy name;
rejoice, O hearts that seek the LORD!
Look to the LORD in his strength;
seek to serve him constantly.
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