On the Road to Emmaus

theological and devotional musings by Richard Liantonio

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A Prayer for the Love of Life

17 July, 2008 (15:07) | Prayers | 3 comments

O God, who deemed the creation exceedingly good, richly supplies us with all things to enjoy, and through the raising of Jesus from the dead infuses the world with life ever new: awaken in your people an undreamt-of love for life, loosen the shackles of cynicism and jaded despair and lighten upon us the daybreak [...]

New Exodus – Part 2 – The Historical Revelation of God

7 July, 2008 (04:56) | Bible, Exodus | 1 comment

In the last post, I proposed that the revelation of the divine name “Yahweh” to Moses at the burning bush is better translated “I will be” rather than “I AM.” Instead of relating to static categories of existence or other such metaphysical qualities Greek philosophers were interested in, it pertains to the future of God’s [...]

Behold the Lamb of God – Prayer for Epiphany 2

20 January, 2008 (01:43) | Christian Year, Epiphany, Prayers | No comments

In a few posts I’ve included prayers for the current season that have been taken from established liturgies. The following is my first hand at writing my own prayers in a liturgical style. It is based on the readings that are in the Revised Common Lectionary (a three year cycle of scheduled readings which is [...]

Pentecost – The Coming of the Holy Spirit

2 June, 2007 (16:54) | Christian Year, Pentecost, Pneumatology (Spirit), Theology | No comments

This past Sunday was Pentecost, a day on which believers for many, many years have celebrated the coming of the Holy Spirit to dwell with and within the people of God.
Even before it was a celebration of the Spirit coming from heaven, it was commemorated by Jews for the coming of God’s law, “from heaven” [...]

And so it begins…

31 October, 2006 (03:16) | Personal | No comments

This is my first and rather uneventful entry in my new blog. I figure for such a moment I should do nothing more or less than plot my course. I like to think of myself as a pilgrim, living in a world of sorrow, pain, death and decay with my sights set on a Day [...]