Apparently, as Raymond homilized, the Disciples did not have their Knox Gospel Harmony."This would surely make a time scale of the apparitions impossible. Any attempt to set a chronological order to these events would be doomed to failure. It isn’t surprising then to read, in today’s Gospel, about the bewilderment of the Apostles."
IT SEEMS that it was 'The Cenacle Sunday Evening 9 April'. Knox Gospel Story p.416.
At this point I have not yet checked the other exegeses.
Enuf for today - with draft.
Donald
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Sunday, 22 April 2012
Third Sunday of Easter - Year B
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 24:35-48. (Mk 16:14*, Jn:20:19-230.Jesus comes to the Apostolic Cenacle.
The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way, and how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread.
While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you."
.... Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.
While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you."
.... Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.
. . .
Hilton, Walter - Perfection
Hilton,
Walter (Father) From The Scale of Perfection,
Dom Gerard Sitwell, O.S.B . Tr. 1953, The Newman Press, 'Westminster, MD.
The Enlightenment of Emmaus
The soul of one who loves and desires God sees him in proportion
to the degree in which it is made humble by the infusion of grace and the
opening of the spiritual eyes, and insofar as it understands that it is nothing
of itself but is entirely dependent on the mercy and goodness of God, and that
it is upheld only by his favour. It sees the truth of the Scriptures
wonderfully revealed to it in a way that it could not do by study and its own
natural intelligence, and this is a kind of experience or perception of God,
for God is the source of wisdom, and by imparting a little of his wisdom to a
pure soul he can enable it to understand the whole
of Scripture. He does not impart this knowledge all at once in a single act of
enlightenment, but through his grace the soul receives a new habitual ability
to understand the texts which come to its mind.
This light and clearness in the intelligence is produced by the
presence of God. The Gospel tells us that as two of the
disciples were going to Emmaus, speaking of Jesus and on fire with love, he
appeared to them in the likeness of a pilgrim and instructed them in the
prophecies concerning himself. He gave them intelligence
to understand Holy Scripture. In the same way the
indwelling of God illumines the intelligence of those who love and ardently desire
him, and brings to their minds by the ministry of angels the words
and the texts of Scripture without their searching for them or thinking
about them, and it makes their meaning clear, however difficult or obscure they
may be in themselves. The more difficult they are and the less able to be
understood by the ordinary light of reason, the more delightful is their
exposition when it comes from God ... The lover of God is his friend, not
because he has deserved to be, but because God in his merciful goodness has
made him so by a very real pact. And so it is that he shows
him his secrets as to a true friend who serves him through love and not through
fear.
FATHER WALTER
HILTON
Father Hilton (+ 1396) was a Canon of the Augustinian Priory of Thurgarton, England
Father Hilton (+ 1396) was a Canon of the Augustinian Priory of Thurgarton, England
