Episode 031: Stay With Us, Lord (Mass Readings for Apr. 26, 2020)
About this Episode
Bibliography/Resources
The Gospel of Luke (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)
Shanks, Hershel. “Emmaus: Where Christ Appeared,” Biblical Archaeology Review 34.2 (2008): 40–42, 44–51.
Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com
References
Mark 16:12 - "After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country."
John 19:25 - "Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene."
Eusebius, Church History 3.11 - "After the martyrdom of James and the conquest of Jerusalem which immediately followed, it is said that those of the apostles and disciples of the Lord that were still living came together from all directions with those that were related to the Lord according to the flesh (for the majority of them also were still alive) to take counsel as to who was worthy to succeed James. They all with one consent pronounced Symeon, the son of Clopas, of whom the Gospel also makes mention; to be worthy of the episcopal throne of that parish. He was a cousin, as they say, of the Saviour. For Hegesippus records that Clopas was a brother of Joseph."
Ibid., 4.22.4 - "And after James the Just had suffered martyrdom, as the Lord had also on the same account, Symeon, the son of the Lord's uncle, Clopas, was appointed the next bishop. All proposed him as second bishop because he was a cousin of the Lord."
Jerome, Letter 108, Par. 8 - "Again resuming her journey, she came to Nicopolis, once called Emmaus, where the Lord became known in the breaking of bread; an action by which He dedicated the house of Cleopas as a church."
Acts 7:22 - "Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds."
Deuteronomy 18:15 - "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you"
Luke 9:22 - "“The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”
Luke 17:25 - "But first he [the Son of Man] must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation."
Acts 3:18 - "What God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled."
Genesis 3:6-7 - "So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened"