{"id":72385,"date":"2024-12-01T00:30:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T05:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=72385"},"modified":"2024-12-01T08:09:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T13:09:24","slug":"when-we-see-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/when-we-see-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"When We See The Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There it is, in Scripture,\u00a0<em>Luke 25:30-35,\u00a0<\/em>a final confirmation of the importance of Mass.<\/p>\n<p>The liturgy as Catholic know it was instituted at the Last Supper, of course. But rarely do we recall how important it is&#8211;the breaking of bread&#8211;in seeing with spiritual eyes?<\/p>\n<p>Was this not demonstrated when, after the Resurrection, His own disciples couldn&#8217;t recognize Him <em>until<\/em> they did it?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NASB1995-26022\" class=\"text Luke-24-30\">&#8220;When He had reclined <i>at the table<\/i>\u00a0with them, He took the bread and\u00a0blessed\u00a0<i>it<\/i>, and breaking\u00a0<i>it<\/i>, He\u00a0<i>began<\/i>\u00a0giving\u00a0<i>it<\/i>\u00a0to them.<\/span> <span id=\"en-NASB1995-26023\" class=\"text Luke-24-31\">Then their\u00a0eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight.<\/span> <span id=\"en-NASB1995-26024\" class=\"text Luke-24-32\">They said to one another, &#8216;Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?&#8217;<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB1995-26025\" class=\"text Luke-24-33\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven and those who were with them,<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB1995-26026\" class=\"text Luke-24-34\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>saying, &#8216;The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon.&#8217;\u00a0 <\/span><span id=\"en-NASB1995-26027\" class=\"text Luke-24-35\">They\u00a0<i>began<\/i> to relate their experiences on the road and how\u00a0He was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>[resources: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookstore.spiritdaily.com\/search?q=secrets+of+the+eucharist\">Secrets of the Eucharist<\/a><\/span>]<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"devotion\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1733013042\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"When We See The Lord\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There it is, in Scripture,\u00a0Luke 25:30-35,\u00a0a final confirmation of the importance of Mass. The liturgy as Catholic know it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-devotion","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}