Luke 24:32
“Were not our hearts burning (within us) while He spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?”
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A glorious body… Jesus appeared in this state after His resurrection. This is the same state where He was in during the Transfiguration. His glorious appearance signifies that He did not only risen from the dead, but also possesses the new properties of a glorious body.
For this reason too the risen Jesus enjoys the sovereign freedom of appearing as He wishes: in the guise of a gardener or in other forms familiar to his disciples, precisely to awaken their faith.
Christ's Resurrection was not a return to earthly life, as was the case with the raisings from the dead that He had performed before Easter: Jairus' daughter, the young man of Naim, Lazarus. These actions were miraculous events. However, the persons miraculously raised by Jesus returned to ordinary earthly life and at some particular moment they would die again.
Christ's Resurrection is essentially different. In His risen body, He passes from the state of death to another life beyond time and space.
Our hearts yearn for and burns in His presence.
Let us acknowledge the life-giving power and evangelizing dynamic of encountering Jesus today - just as the two disciples felt their hearts burn within them and returned in haste to Jerusalem to tell their story of meeting Jesus. And someday, we will assume that same glorious body in Heaven as we are resurrected to join our Lord in Heaven.
Let us pray +
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, we praise You for the love that You have revealed through your Sacred Heart, which was pierced for us and which has become the fountain of our joy, the source of our eternal life. May all we say and do give glory and praise to you and to the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God living and reigning for ever and ever. Amen +
Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.
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