Questions Regarding Luke 24: 13:35, Road to Emmaus

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The translation I am using is the New American Bible.
  1. vs 16: “they were restrained from recognizing him.”
vs 25: “What little sense you have ! How slow you are to believe all that the prophets have announced !”

When I read this I feel a sense of shame and fear because of my own lack of faith.

Also, I do not see a “compassionate Father” in this. It seems that the Lord Jesus is rebuking them, but they were not allowed to recognize Him.

Also, is this a good reason that in the Lord’s prayer we pray “and lead us not into temptation” because the two were restrained and God can withhold His grace and thus let us be led into temptation ?
  1. vs 27: “Beginning then with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted for them every passage of Scripture which referred to him.”
a) Oh how I would have longed for the 2 disciples to have documented this teaching.

b) Does this imply that there is only one correct interpretation of scripture and that only Jesus can reveal that interpretation similar to the same impression I get from Jesus interpretation of the Parable of the Sower and the seed ?

c) Why start with Moses and not start with Creation, Genesis or does the referrence to Moses imply the “Books of Moses” which would

include Genesis ?
  1. I am surprised that there is no referrence to the “sin” being committed by the 2 disciples or
acts of repentence such as Peter’s denial.

Did the disciples sin and if yes does this also imply the difference betweeen venial sin and mortal sin ?
  1. vs 32: “Were not our hearts burning inside us as he talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?”
a) How discouraged ought I be that I am easily distracted at Mass and fail to experience this burning at the Mass during the readings and homily ?

b) Should a lack of this type of experience by those going to Mass imply a serious failure in

the priest who acts in the person of Christ ?
  1. vs. 31: “With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him; whereupon he vanished from their sight.”
a) At the reception of our Lord in Holy Communion, should my eyes be opened and I recognize the bread and wine as the body and blood of Christ and realize the reality of Christ’s

Resurrection ?

b) Where did Jesus go ? After all, He is physically raised ?

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Terry, don’t ever post your real name address and phone on the internet, very dangerous, you can PM somebody if they need to contact you.

without dealing with every issue you raise, the bottom line is that they did not recognize him until the breaking of the bread (communion) this entire story is a catechesis on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Eucharist. Even with Christ himself proclaiming and interpreting sacred scripture they did not recognize him, only in the act of blessing, breaking and eating the bread (clearly consecrated by Him) did they recognize Christ truly present with them.

You do not go to Mass (or engage in any other ritual, prayer or devotion) for the sake of emotional content or experience. You are there to worship and praise God, to thank Him for His gift of Jesus and the saving action of Christ, to unite yourself with Christ’s sacrifice and redemptive action, through which He establishes and maintains His mystical Body on earth, to receive Him into your body, heart and soul, and most of all, in obedience to His commands.

Your understanding, participation, faith are the result of your cooperation with the action of the Holy Spirit, not the result of the priest’s faith, fervor, devotion, orthodoxy or whatever. The priest stands in the person of Christ when he is performing the sacrificial words and actions prescribed by Christ, so there can be no defect since Christ Himself is speaking and acting.
 
The translation I am using is the New American Bible.
  1. vs 16: “they were restrained from recognizing him.”
    vs 25: “What little sense you have ! How slow you are to believe all that the prophets have announced !”
When I read this I feel a sense of shame and fear because of my own lack of faith.

Also, I do not see a “compassionate Father” in this. It seems that the Lord Jesus is rebuking them, but they were not allowed to recognize Him.

My interp of these verses, here, was that Jesus’ resurrection was full of joy, and He is playing a trick on these people He loves, in His joy. When, after blinding them, He says, “What little sense you have!,” that is a joke.

Also, is this a good reason that in the Lord’s prayer we pray “and lead us not into temptation” because the two were restrained and God can withhold His grace and thus let us be led into temptation ?

Though “lead us not into temptation” is a negatively-worded petition, the intent is to rhetorically and artfully ask Jesus to lead us out of the temptation of the Original-Sin-tainted, not-yet-saved world.
  1. vs 27: “Beginning then with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted for them every passage of Scripture which referred to him.”
    a) Oh how I would have longed for the 2 disciples to have documented this teaching.
Bible typology, referred to in Catechism Paragraphs 128, 129 and 130, and Dei Verbum Paragraphs 15 and 16, delineates these. They are verses like Genesis 3:8, where Adam and Eve retreating to the trees to hide from God’s wrath is a picture of Christ and the Apostles retreating to Gethsemane, where Christ agonized ovber God’s oncoming wrath. Then there is Genesis 3:15, where “He will strike at your head, while you strike at His heel” is a picture of the cross piercing the dust at SKULL Place (get it? – “strike at your HEAD”?) while Jesus’ feet are nailed to the cross (get it? – “strike at His HEEL”?). There are many, many such verses in the Old Testament.

b) Does this imply that there is only one correct interpretation of scripture and that only Jesus can reveal that interpretation similar to the same impression I get from Jesus interpretation of the Parable of the Sower and the seed ?

**Well, Scripture speaks at two levels – the plaintext level; and the sensus plenior or “fuller sense” typological level. There is only one correct interp of each. We can do the interp, if we open our eyes to Bible typology, learn the system, and pray to the Holy Spirit to guide us.

c) Why start with Moses and not start with Creation, Genesis or does the referrence to Moses imply the “Books of Moses” which would
include Genesis ?

To be continued…
 
Continued from previous post…**When the text says, “Moses and the prophets,” these are nicknames for the Torah – Genesis and the other four initial books" – and the Haftorah, or “After-Torah,” all of the other books.

**3. I am surprised that there is no referrence to the “sin” being committed by the 2 disciples or

acts of repentence such as Peter’s denial.

Did the disciples sin and if yes does this also imply the difference betweeen venial sin and mortal sin ?

I don’t follow these last few lines, above.
  1. vs 32: “Were not our hearts burning inside us as he talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?”
a) How discouraged ought I be that I am easily distracted at Mass and fail to experience this burning at the Mass during the readings and homily ?

Your heart may already be burning, and you are used to the heat. Are you proud to be a “soldier of Christ,” serving The Master, Christ? Yes? If you know what I mean by this, then your heart is already burning.

b) Should a lack of this type of experience by those going to Mass imply a serious failure in the priest who acts in the person of Christ ?

No. The sacraments were designed to “work” even though administered by a sinful Church. Peter’s story in the gospel is full of mistakes and sins – ten seconds after “Your are Peter and upon this Rock” He says, “Get behind me, you Satan!” – to prefigure the sinful Church. It is still His Church.
  1. vs. 31: “With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him; whereupon he vanished from their sight.”
The joke, portraying Faith in response to the Word, is completed.

a) At the reception of our Lord in Holy Communion, should my eyes be opened and I recognize the bread and wine as the body and blood of Christ and realize the reality of Christ’s Resurrection ?

Again, I think that your heart is already burning, and you are used to the heat. Look at the questions you are asking! You have a good heart, friend!

b) Where did Jesus go ? After all, He is physically raised ?

I think that He is still there.
 
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