OUR LORD AND SAVIOR (04-11-12)

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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The Holy Mass is composed of two parts: the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. The Liturgy of the Word opens our mind and our hearts to the love of God through Jesus.

And the Liturgy of the Eucharist opens our eyes to finally accept Him as our Lord and Savior. Similar to His first days as resurrected Lord, as He showed Himself to His disciples, their hearts grow fonder and really feel His love. His glorious appearance signifies that He did not only risen from the dead, but also possesses the new properties of a glorious body: not limited by space and time but able to be present how and when He wills.

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. Christ's Resurrection is essentially different. In His risen body, He passes from the state of death to another life beyond time and space.

At Jesus' Resurrection, His body is filled with the power of the Holy Spirit: He shares the divine life in His glorious state, so that St. Paul can say that Christ is "the man of heaven".

Our hearts yearn for and burns in His presence. Let us open our eyes and our hearts to fully acknowledge the life-giving power and evangelizing dynamic of encountering Jesus today - just as the two disciples felt their hearts burn within them and opening their eyes to the Truth as they returned in haste to Jerusalem to tell their story of meeting Jesus.

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.

Rejoice, Oh hearts that seek the Lord.