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On the road to Emmaus the disciples didn't recognize Jesus. Jesus spoke with them, asking them questions about everything that had happened to Him. Jesus then opened their eyes to the scriptures and later to His identity. After Jesus left their sight, the disciples reflected on their Emmaus experience saying, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?" How often are we on our own road to Emmaus, missing God when He is right there with us? How frequently do we forget to really listen to what our heart is telling us? When our heart is burning we don't often stop long enough to feel what it's telling us. Most of us sense that we could definitely do better in this department. The good news is that Jesus didn't leave the disciples sight never to return. Instead, He returned for ALWAYS. The Holy Spirit became God in them and then God in us: right now and for all tomorrows. Today our heart burns within ...

The Wisdom of Solomon, also called the Book of Wisdom, is one of seven books included in the Old Testament of the Catholic Bible which does not appear in Protestant Bibles. The Wisdom of Solomon was written in Greek, most likely in the 1st. century B.C. in Alexandria, Eygpt. The title in Greek, translated as the Wisdom of Solomon, attributes the book to King Solomon, the son and heir of King David of Israel. King Solomon was celebrated for his wisdom, and the attribution of this book to him invokes a great authority as the source for the wisdom found in it. The first five chapters of the Book of Wisdom explain the function of Wisdom in human destiny and compares the fate of the good and the fate of the bad both during life and afterwards. Chapters six through nine treat the origin and nature of Wisdom and how it can be won. Chapters ten through nineteen recount the role Wisdom played in the history of God's chosen people Israel, especially focusing on the critical event of the Exod...