--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/15/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/15/09 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2009/04/15/daily-readings-reflection-for-41509#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 4/15/09 Apr 15, 2009 8:04:29 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for 4/15/09 by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: Easter Wed. Acts 3:1-10. Psalm 105:1-2.3-4.6-7.8-9. Luke 24:13-25. Lectionary # 263: Both readings give us the spirit of Easter and make us feel the joy and hope of the witnesses of Jesus' resurrection. Acts is a beautiful compliment to the Jesus of the Gospels especially that of Luke for it helps us see the living Lord in the life of the new emerging Christian community in Jerusalem and from there to the whole known world of that time. Today's episode has some humorous joy in it when we see the response of the cripple who is healed by Peter and John--"He went into the Temple with them--walking, jumping about and praising God." Now that is an example of the exhuberant joy and hope that Easter should bring to us. What entusiasm on his part; what great confidence and trust (hope) in Peter and John that they could continue to do what Jesus did on earth; even heal a cripple. Emmaus is a small village not far from Jerusalem; certainly less than ten miles. The two who are heading toward it on this day, probably a Monday, the second day in the Hebrew calendar of Jesus' time. This narrative is possibly the most developed and exquisite of the many variant apparitions of the Risen Lord. Jesus is catching up with the two who are walking back to Jerusalem; they may be a married couple for all we know. As the "stranger" joins them they have no clue that it is Jesus. He walks with them and starts to ask them why they seem so sad. They relate the story of what was happening in Jerusalem these past days and how Jesus had died on the cross; they were hoping for something more than that from him. Their guest then starts to show them how the Scriptures point to the Messiah and how the Messiah would fulfill them. He unravels some of the prophecies for them and then listens to how they say women have mentioned that the stone in front of Jesus' tomb was moved and how the tomb was empty. Some even said they saw him. Jesus takes them back again into the Scriptures and even starts with the prophet Moses in the Torah and moves on through the Prophets, the Psalms, the Writings. "Then he said to them, "What little sense you have! How slow to believe all that the prophets have announced.! Did not the Messiah have to undergo all this so as to enter into his glory?" Their hearts started to warm up with hope as he continued to speak. They could not let this stranger go without offering him some hospitality. They pressed him and gave us one of the most touching expressions of desire in the Bible: "Stay with us. It is nearly evening--the day is practically over." This is especially helpful for those who are aging. It offers them a "soldier's night prayer"--that is, a very short but powerful night prayer for those in assisted living quarters and nursing homes. And Jesus did go and stay with them. Then he sat down took bread, broke it and blessed it. All of a sudden they remembered what he had done on the night before his death and they recognized him in the breaking of the bread. As we reflect on this narrative we see that it is a real live historical experience of what we do when we share and participate in the liturgy of the Word and the Eucharist. We experience the living Christ speaking to us as a community and as individuals. Are hearts then burn within us for we realize that Christ is alive and well among us. 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