Gospel of the day 6/5/11, 7/5/11 & 8/5/11

You know, I really should post the Gospels of the day on their proper days.  Oh well,  such is life.
I'm also posting Sunday's Gospel because it is looking hectically busy.  I should have a little thingy (for lack of a better word) on the Sunday Gospel either today or tomorrow.

 8/5/11
Luke 24:13-35. 
That very day, the first day of the week, two of Jesus' disciples were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus,
and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. 
And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, 
but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.
He asked them, "What are you discussing as you walk along?" They stopped, looking downcast. 
One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place there in these days?" 
And he replied to them, "What sort of things?" They said to him, "The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, 
how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him. 
But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this took place. 
Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were at the tomb early in the morning 
and did not find his body; they came back and reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was alive. 
Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described, but him they did not see." 
And he said to them, "Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! 
Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and enter into his glory?"
Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures. 
As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. 
But they urged him, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over." So he went in to stay with them. 
And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. 
With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. 
Then they said to each other, "Were not our hearts burning (within us) while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?" 
So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them 
who were saying, "The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!" 
Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. 

 7/5/11
Saint John 6:16-21. 
When it was evening, the disciples of Jesus went down to the sea, 
embarked in a boat, and went across the sea to Capernaum. It had already grown dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. 
The sea was stirred up because a strong wind was blowing. 
When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they began to be afraid.
But he said to them, "It is I. Do not be afraid."
They wanted to take him into the boat, but the boat immediately arrived at the shore to which they were heading. 


6/5/11
John 6:1-15. 
Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee.
A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick.
Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.
The Jewish feast of Passover was near.
When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, "Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?"
He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.
Philip answered him, "Two hundred days' wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little (bit)."
One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,
There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?
Jesus said, "Have the people recline." Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number.
Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted.
When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, "Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted."
So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat.
When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, "This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world."
Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone.