--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 6/27/10 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 6/27/10 --- [![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/2010/06/27/daily-readings-reflection-for-62710#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 6/27/10 Jun 27, 2010 10:05:48 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on Today’s Daily Readings by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: Lectionary 100: I Kings 19:16.19-21. Psalm 16:1-2.5.7-8.9-10. Gal.5:1.13-18. Luke 9:51-62: Journeys are a part of living and we all have journeys to make both for leisure, family, and work. Luke is the Evangelist we journey with in this liturgical year, and he is interested in the journeys that Jesus calls us to make. His Gospel and the Acts have more about journeys than the rest of the New Testament. He may have traveled many journeys with Paul on his "missionary journeys". He then wrote about his own journey. In his Gospel there is what is called the "journey narrative" which extends from today's first verse in the Gospel at Luke 9:51 and will continue till 19:44. Luke crafts his journey theme both as a literary person and even moreso as an Evangelist-Theologian. On Jesus' most momentous journey up to Jerusalem for the last time in his life,fixes his eyes and steels his will to go there for what he knows will be dangerous and may even lead to his suffering and death. It does happen that way and Luke narrates it in his last chapters that unfold in the holy city of Jerusalem another symbolic and theologica theme for this master Gospel writer. A hint of what it means was already seen by his disciples who made the journey with him. In the Transfiguration this is called an "exodus" in his sequence of starting and making the final journey (Luke 9:30).This departure (or Exodus in the original of Luke's Greek) will be our exodus experience too if we follow Jesus throughout his journey of life. We see that the whole Gospel has over fifteen journey passages in which some of the great parables appear like the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son. His theology of journey may be said to continue to the very end of chapter 24 the last chapter of his Gospel. Here is journeys with two of his disciples as they head toward their destination the village of Emmaus. This offers the Resurrected Jesus an opportunity about teaching what the journey with him is, namely. a fulfilling of the Scriptures--the mirror of life for all believing Christians and the Tanakh or the Old Testament for his own people, the Israelites. Jesus says to the two disciples on their way to Emmaus, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself." It was then that their eyes were opened and they realized he was journeying with them through all of their sufferings and their sadness at his death. They have finally learned what it means to be disciples of the Lord. "Did not our hearts burn within us while talked to us on our journey and opened for us the scriptures?" (Luke 24:32-33). This Sunday offers us the invitation to continue on our own journeys with the Lord as did those who followed him up to Jerusalem and those who were met by him on the road to Emmaus. No matter where we are we are on the journey God has mapped out for us. Maybe like the two on their way to Emmaus, our eyes are opened and we see Jesus for the first time and we have the flame of fire within our hearts through the Scriptures. We then can make or renew the decision to follow Jesus and make the rest of the journey with him. We then make a commitment frees us to reorder all of our duties. Then the sharpness of Jesus' sayings about following him jolts us into weighing most seriously our desire to follow him on the way. This is our Exodus and the beginning of our life with Jesus now and in eternity. T.S.Eliot gives us the reason for journeying: "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our own exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." 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