Third Sunday of Easter, Year A

​Were not our hearts burning within us?
~Luke 24:32
 
The gospel today brings us that familiar story from Luke of the two disciples on the road trying to make sense of a dizzying series of events. Disappointment, confusion, and despair are their companions on the road when they are suddenly joined by another who turns out to be the risen Christ. At first, it seems this “stranger” is the one out of touch: “Haven't you been watching the news? Do you not know who are leaders are and what they’re up to? Do you not see how finished we are? ...
 
Then everything shifts! The scales fall from our eyes. We look for Jesus where he isn’t, and it turns out he’s right in front of us, leading us back to what saves us. “Were not our hearts burning within us?”
 
What is it that makes for life? What is worth dying for, or better, living for? How do our expectations of how things go with this God line up with the story as it has been handed down to us? These questions accompany us today as they did in the story of these faith seekers in Luke. And we have everything they did: Personal testimony, the scriptures, the breaking of the bread—everything you need to pull you back to the center of life? Life in its fullness. In a word: resurrection!
 
Enter into worship.
 
Readings: Acts 2:14a, 36-41 † Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19 † 1 Peter 1:17-23 † Luke 24:13-35
 
About the Art: Koenig, Peter. Road to Emmaus, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58540 [retrieved April 13, 2026]. Original source: Peter Winfried (Canisius) Koenig, https://www.pwkoenig.co.uk/.

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