In today's Gospel, Luke 24: 35-48, the disciples who returned from Emmaus were sharing their story of their encounter with Jesus with the other apostles. "While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, 'Peace be with you.' But they were startled and terrified and thought they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, 'Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does jot have flesh and bones as you can see I have.' And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. while they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, 'Have you anything here to eat?' They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them."
Do we need any more proof that Jesus is truly risen from the dead? Not really! I believe! I also believe that just as Jesus, in His new resurrected body, could pass through closed doors and be here or there wherever He wished, so, too, for us when we pass through death into eternal life. Our new resurrected bodies, I believe, will have the same powers that Jesus had following His resurrection from the dead. Like Jesus, also, I believe that I will have flesh and bones and will enjoy rich foods and delight in other joys that I experience here on earth but in an expansive way in heaven.
Following his request for something to eat, Jesus "opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. and he said to them, 'Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things."
May the Lord open our minds to understand the Scriptures. May we also acknowledge and repent of our sinfulness, knowing God's and other's forgiveness, as well as being forgiving of others and of ourselves, as well!
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