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EASTER 3A
May 4, 2014
- Peterson, Eugene, "Land of the Living," Ex Auditu, 2002.
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“Prayer is not a way in which we order things; it is a way in which we become ordered. The primary action in prayer comes from God, and more often than not God does not act in ways that we can duplicate, often not even recognize at the time.”
- Achtemeier, Paul J., "Between Text & Sermon: 1 Peter 1:13-21," Interpretation, 2006.
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“How is the Christian to react, armed with such hope, in this hostile world? Get to work at living out your faith! One could paraphrase 1:13 as "roll up the sleeves of your mind." One is not to retreat from the world and rest on grace as on a couch. One is to be up and at it. In technical terms, the indicative (declarative) verbs that have characterized 1:3-12 here give way to imperative (commanding) verbs in 1:13-21.”
- Schertz, "Radical Trust in the Just Judge: The Easter Texts of 1 Peter," Word & World, 2004.
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The section on this text begins on page 436. “Truly, there is an ultimate accountability—every person and every nation comes before God for judgment, but also for love. In that accounting, none of the accouterments of life—status, wealth, talent, beauty, wisdom, strength, influence, power—have any meaning. The standard is love of God and love of humanity.”
- Betz, Hans Dieter, "The Origin and Nature of Christian Faith According to the Emmaus Legend,"Interpretation, 1969.
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“According to the Emmaus legend, . . . the Lord's Supper is the continuation of the saving events initiated by Jesus; 'Jesus' has become identical with the salvation-event and is present in the act of the common meal.”
- Dawn, Marva J., "'Behold! It Came to Pass,' Luke 24:13-35 - The Third Sunday of Easter," Journal for Preachers, 2005.
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“But we will lose sight of what Good News this all is if we can't place ourselves into the gloom of those Emmaus disciples as they walked away from the city of their anguish — knowing only that all their hopes were dashed — and thereby we can't behold the immense mystery and glory of Christ's resurrection and living presence. If we don't want a Messiah tortured and executed, as well as raised by the Father, we can't be truly delivered from ourselves and transformed by the Spirit into the same sort of self-sacrifice and willingness to suffer for the sake of others, especially those who still dwell in the darkness of despair and death.”
- Saunders, Stanley P., "Discernment on the Way to Emmaus: Resurrection Imagination and Practices in Luke 24:13-35," Journal for Preachers, 1997.
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“Those of us in the church are quick to claim the eucharistic setting of discernment toward which this story points, and rightly so. But in our perception of reality, the Eucharist has become a practice that is too often limited to the private confines of the church, where it happens out of sight of the world. We need to remind ourselves that this meal, like the meals Jesus celebrated with the lost ones, the little ones, and the forgotten ones of this world, and like the meals shared by the communities of disciples in early Christianity, was a real meal, not merely a ritualistic symbol. The table of discernment toward which this story points is not the exclusive, homogenous table of most of our churches, but a table with real food shared among strangers.”
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