Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Wednesday within Easter Octave, 30-03-16

Acts 3:1-10 / Luke 24:13-35

The faculty of sight gives us the ability to see and to look at our surroundings.

That also enables us to recognize things and to store them in our memory.

Yet, even at that level, it sounds very empirical because with the rise of artificial intelligence, even robots can "see" and "look" and "recognize" things and they too have an electronic memory to store all the information.

What makes us different is that our intelligence gets enlightened with divine grace and we see deeper and understand more the mysteries of life.

In the gospel, the two disciples on the way to Emmaus saw Jesus, and yet they saw nothing more than just a stranger.

Similarly in the 1st reading, the man who was begging saw Peter and John, but he could only see nothing more than getting some financial assistance from them.

It was here that Peter made a profound and enlightening statement of fundamental Christian essence - I have neither silver or gold, but I will give you what I have: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!

Our enlightenment does not come from silver or gold but in the Risen Christ who lives in us and fills us with the grace of the Resurrection.

May we get up and walk in the light of the Resurrection and bring the light of the Risen Christ to enlighten others.