Third Sunday Easter 4 19 2026 Deacon Louis Zemlick Road to Emmaus, Get to Work

Acts 2:14, 22-33 CCC= Catechism Catholic Church learn CCC547Trial,CCC597,599,1287 Confirmation in the economy of Salvation.

Psalm 16:1-2, 7-11 CCC627You will not let your Holy One see corruption.

1 Peter 1:17-21 CCC517 Christs whole life is a Mystery enter into it at Holy Mass,CCC602,613,622 Christs death.

Gospel Luke 24:13-35 CCC112,439,552,555,572,601,640,641,643,645,652,659,710,1094,1166,1329,1347,and 2625 Pray Go to Holy Mass.

Remember How St. Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher defeated Communisim (evil) in their day. We too must pray and fight against evil in our day, and not be cowards. 

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Hello, everybody. This is Deacon Louis Emlik here in the Diocese of Kalmazou. We're glad you're with us here today on this third Sunday of Easter. It is April 19th, 2026. Louisemlik.com. That's where you can find our podcasts, and feel free to share it. We don't really have a huge social media presence. Actually, I have no Facebook page, so sometimes I'm glad about that. I think I'm glad about that, yeah. So here we go. Um here's the saints of the day, and it is astounding. Okay, stick with me here. Okay, Saint Alphage, 1012, England. That's also today, as well as uh for the 20th, for April 20th, Saint Marcellus, Saint Vincent, Saint Demonicus, 374, France, Saint Bruno, 640 in England, also on the 20th. Saint Agnes, 1317 in Italy, Saint Anselm, 421, England, um, the year 1109. These are the years they died. Or went to heaven, were born into eternal life. Also on the 24th, Saint Melarubita, Irish saint, year 722. Saint George on the 23rd, huge saint, 303, and England. Hear that? All of all of my Protestant brothers and sisters out there, there's a great saints, you know, before the Reformation, right? So, yeah, Saint George, 303, England, and a and a great soldier as well for Christ. Uh, also on the 23rd, Saint Adalbert in the Czech Republic of Prague, died in the year 997. Um, Saint Blessed Teresa Maria, 1910, and Lebanon, pray for Lebanon, 424, Saint Fidelis, Sigmarnia, 1622, Germany. Also on the 24th, Saint Inglewald, 693, England, Saint Egbert, 729, Ireland, Saint Mark, the Feast of Saint Mark on Saturday, uh, yesterday, 425. Not yesterday, but this coming Saturday. 425 is Saint Mark from the uh Gospel Mark, noted fame from the Gospel Mark. And at 425, I didn't do some, I gotta do some more. This is A-N-Z-A-C Day, Gallipolia in uh Turkey. In Turkey, 71934. Had to do some more checking on that. But wow, what a saint lineup for today, and a saint lineup for you being here and for me, and we're all on this journey, this path, this journey. And it truly is a journey too, because in our gospel today, we have the road to Emmaus, right? And this uh journey that the apostles are taking and they encounter uh the risen Lord. So it's quite beautiful, and so stick with us. Uh, we got 29 minutes to go here. Well, not quite 29, we've already done three and a half minutes. So um it's good to have you here. I think the main thing, you know, we we the main thing we see today is we see Pope Leo and our our good president um uh uh Donald Trump. And um I think for both of these men, I think for both of them to reflect on, um, instead of you know butting heads, and and and this is God's way, my brothers and sisters. God's way is we always start out butting heads, but then if we're gentlemen and gentlewoman and uh followers of Jesus uh or followers of any peaceful God, we think what is the more uh realistic answer to the situation? It certainly isn't by fighting. Um we need to defend ourselves, we need to defend our country, we need to defend our borders, of course, of course, of course. Uh the obvious, you know, and sometimes for the politicians, especially the liberal politicians, they just don't get that. Sometimes the liberals in the church don't get that. You know, it's all pie in the sky. Um, you know, everybody's gonna get along, but everybody's not gonna get along. This is a battle, this is the war between good and evil. But the example I'm gonna leave is this, and then I'm moving on to the scriptures, because I find the tit for tat back and forth very childish on all parties, um included. So, and I can do it too. Hey, I'll be the first to admit I can do it too. So that's why I know. See, that's why I know so much about it, because I can do it too, and I've done it, and I've done it too. So um, look at this. Look at Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and St. Pope John Paul II, and what they did, the three of them did to um really destroy communism in our time. Now, what has happened in the last 50 years? Communism comes right back, right? Never really leaves. None of this evil ever really leaves, none of this evil is ever really fully defeated until when? Until the return of Jesus Christ. And it'll be all over with one word. So keep that in mind. Keep that in mind. But a beautiful way of dealing with it is for us to figure this stuff out. And we'll preach about that a little bit at the end. Uh, we've got some long readings, uh, but I'm gonna preach about that a little bit at the end. That all this head bumping and you know, chest pounding, and I'm better, and blah, blah, blah. And, you know, my data, my data center can be your data center, which is all, you know, about the insanity of Amazon, you know, and the insanity of the government wanting to know everything and control everything, right? That's what all this data center garbage is about. So it's really sad in a way, you know, that that we gotta, we're gonna keep track of everything. We keep track of everything, including this radio or including this podcast, right? Which is um, yeah, so it's fun though. My brothers and sisters, be at peace, pray, take care of yourselves, do what you're supposed to do. Let there be peace within your family, within your nation. Be the living Jesus, be the living saints of our day, be like the Blessed Virgin Mary, be like the great saints, be like Saint John the Baptist. Okay, not necessarily like the religious leaders or whomever we have today. Be better. Be better than. You know, that's what I look at. I look, oh geez, I can do better than that. You know, I can be less obnoxious than that. You know, I can be more peaceful than that. And uh, that's good to look at. So here we go. And we're gonna try to get to um actually, I'm gonna mention it right now instead of at the end of the program, because I have uh neglected to mention this for two months, my brothers and sisters. For eight programs, I have not talked about the theology of the body. And uh, there was a great guy on Father Mitch Pagua's show last week who was talking about physics. And um, yes, that's science, my brothers and sisters, because as Catholics, we believe in faith and reason, and all that reasoning is seeped in education and in science and the reality of the physical world, including and our physical selves as well. So here it is, St. Pope John Paul II and his audience, the 12th of March 1980, the Holy Father furthered his examination, the concept of mutual knowledge between the first man and woman. The woman is brought into full awareness of the mystery of creation and its renewal in human generation. That sounds kind of a heavy topic, right? So look those up, St. Pope John Paul II's theology of the body. I'm gonna write it down right here that we talked about that on the 19th, 2026. And uh, gee whiz, I went to two months without talking about that. Very beautiful uh theology, very uh affirming of who we are as people, and which is why we treat our bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit. We don't disfigure them with sin or with our own uh adaptations or fantasies that are in our head that we think we need to do this or that with our physical bodies to malform them, or you know, getting drunk all the time, it's not good for our physical bodies, or you know, sleeping around and getting all these diseases. That's not good for us either. And when we get married to commit ourselves to the person we're married to. Okay, here we go with the readings. Daily mass reading, the Sunday mass reading for the third Sunday of Easter. My name is Deacon Louis Zumwick, and we're glad you're with us on this very holy day. Our first reading is from the Acts of the Apostles, chapter two, verse fourteen, and then verses twenty-two through thirty-three. Then Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed, You who are Jews, indeed all who are staying in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and listen to my words. You who are Israelites, hear these words. Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God, with mighty deeds, wonders, and signs, which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. This man delivered up by a set plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless men to crucify him. But God raised him, released him from the thrones of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it. For David says of him, I saw the Lord ever before me, with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. Therefore my heart has been glad, and my tongue has exalted, my flesh too will dwell in hope, because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your holy one to see corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life, you will fill me with joy in your presence. My brothers, one can confidently say to you about the patriarch David, that he died and was buried, and his tomb is in our midst to this day. But since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him, that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne, he foresaw he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that neither was he abandoned to the netherworld, nor did his flesh see corruption. God raised this Jesus. For this we are all witnesses, exalted at the right hand of God. He received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father and poured him forth as you see and hear the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Our psalm reading today on this third Sunday of Easter is from Psalm 16, verses 1 and 2, verses 5 through 11. Lord, you will show us the path of life. Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, my Lord are you. O Lord, my allotted portion and my cup. You it is who hold fast my lot. Lord, you will show us the path of life. I bless the Lord who counsels me. Even in the night my heart exhorts me. I set the Lord ever before me. With him at my right hand, I shall not be disturbed. Lord, you will show us the path of life. Therefore, my heart is glad and my soul rejoices. My body too abides in confidence, because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your faithful ones to undergo corruption. Lord, you will show us the path of life. You will show me the path to life, abounding joy in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever. Lord, you will show us the path of life. Also keep in mind there's another responsorial on that, which is hallelujah. He has risen. Amen. Amen. Okay, a little add-on there. All right. The reading, our second reading is from 1 Peter verse 1, 17 through 21. Beloved, if you invoke as Father Him who judges impartially according to each one's works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning, realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with precious but with the precious blood of Christ, as a spotless as a spotless blemish lamb. He was known before the foundation of the world, but revealed in the final time for you, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. The word of the Lord, thanks be to God. Very nice. Gospel readings, a long gospel, uh gospel of Luke, chapter 24, verses 13 through 35. I'm gonna have a lot of preaching at the end. A little bit. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. Glory to you, O Lord. That very day, the first day of the week, two of Jesus' disciples' 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, looked downcast. One of them, named Cleopos, said to him in reply, Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of these 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 of this, it is now the third day since this took place. Some women from our group, however, have astounded us. They went, 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 of us went to the tomb and found things just at the w as the women had described. But 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 Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? Then, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what he 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 further. But they urged him, Stay with us, for it was nearly evening and the day is almost over. So he went 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. There they found and gathered together the eleven and those who were with them, 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. The gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. The words of this gospel wipe away our sins. Welcome, my brothers and sisters. My name is Deacon Louis Zemlik here in the Diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan. We're glad you're with us here today on this third Sunday of Easter, the 19th day of April, 2026. Great feast day for very and very many saints as well. And we got some great teachings from the catechism. We won't be able to get through them all, but we'll do the best we can. So this is kind of going back to the mysteries of Jesus' public life. And 540, 547 of the catechism, Jesus accompanies his words with many mighty works and wonders and signs, which manifest the kingdom in its present to him and attest that he was the promised Messiah. And quite beautiful to see that. And really just this fulfillment of these scriptures have come true for us. So we watch as we as we journey along, we watch, we watch and see for where Jesus is. And to look at these catechism teachings are very good. This confirmation of the economy of salvation. Jesus handed over to this God's divine plan. Jesus' violent death was not the result of a chance in an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances, but it is part of the mystery of God's plan. And I think this is what we fail to understand, my brothers and sisters. We always try to put this meaning into earthly meaning that, you know, how can such a mean God do this? Well, a loving God did this for us, sacrificed himself, his very own and only son, for us to save us from death. A death that we, in a certain sense, created through our own disobedience. And continues to create, uh, it seems. To be on a daily basis as well. But as I mentioned earlier, about how Ronald Reagan and St. Pope John Paul II and Margaret Thatcher, these three great leaders back in the, I think it was in the 70s, who came together to defeat this evil of communism in the world, socialism, Marxism, came together. And I tell you, my brothers and sisters, every generation has to deal with this. Every generation will have these. You know, if we think we can sit back, and of course many people do think we can just sit back and just let things happen. Well, the crooked cross, the the scourge of socialism, communism, Marxism, and all of these uh totalitarian regimes that look like it's so good, such a great thing to have this. And these are very liberal ways, right? And of course, they convinced the people of this, the communists convinced the people of this, especially in the Soviet Union. You know, they told them, you know, you don't have to go to church anymore. If you want to get rid of your husband or your wife, you go right ahead and do that. Whereas the church was always forthright and saying, no, you need to be responsible. You need to be responsible, you need to take care of your family, you need to get married, you need to stay married, and you need to be decent to each other, and you need to get a good job and take care of your family and do what God wants, not what you want to do. But communism, socialism, Marxism, all of those things appeal to our lower nature and really our sinful nature, to just do it our selfishness, appeal to our selfishness, which is why, you know, people think that that's great. You know, we we see it in New York City now, you know, with their new mayor, you know, they're gonna have, you know, state-run grocery stores. Well, that'll work for a while. You know, it'll be happy and fine for maybe 10 years, maybe five, maybe twenty, maybe a hundred. But you will be imprisoned and you will not be free. You will not be free, and it'll be just a gigantic waste of time. And you'll be and you will lose God in your life. You know? In the end, you end up lonely, right? Lonely and broke and broken. It's very sad. But I know that you know sometimes these things have to happen, the road to Emmaus. But the only way that God is made known to us is in the breaking of the bread, the Holy Eucharist. And we see it with a vast amount of our Christian brothers and sisters, too, who um, and I don't mean any offense by this, but basically basically go to uh Walmart style churches where, you know, or or just uh independent church where you know we preach whatever we want to do. We we don't preach the gospel, and there is no breaking of the bread. There is no holy Eucharist. Holiness is removed. And if you just do a vision of the church that you're currently going to or the religion that you're following, do they focus on holiness? Number one. And the second thing, do they focus on love, on love and reconciliation? Then the next step is the sacraments. Do they have sacraments? See. Now these are very difficult things, my brothers and sisters, and you know, I'm not, I don't want to, you know, just give you just a bunch of you know, gobbledygoop either, but these are things that we have to be honest with ourselves about. Psalm 16. Psalm 16, 627 of the catechism. You will not let your holy one see corruption. Jesus did not just stay in the ground, he rose from the dead. Hallelujah, hallelujah. The whole life is a mystery, the characteristics common of Jesus' mystery. The whole life is a mystery of redemption. You hear that? Redemption comes to us through above all, through the blood of the cross. The mystery is at work throughout Christ's entire life. Already in his incarnation, to which becoming poor, he enriched us with his poverty, in his hidden life, which is his submission, atones for our disobedience, in his word which purifies the hearers, in his healings and his exorcisms, by which he took on our infirmities and bore our diseases, and in his resurrection, by which he justifies us. 517 of the catechism, my brothers and sisters. And that's all from 1 Peter. That's what the church teaches that that scripture from 1 Peter, that's what it's all about. This Christ's unique and definitive sacrifice. And then, of course, the gospel reading today, only a few minutes left. I invite you to look at these in our podcast where we list all these. The Holy Spirit and the interpreter of Scripture. Be especially attentive to the content and the unity of the whole scripture. The whole Bible, my brothers and sisters. The whole Bible, which the church has all 72 books, all 72 books, all of the Old Testament books, all of the New Testament books, which are composed to be the scripture, is a unity by reason of the unity of God's plan, which Christ Jesus is the center and the heart open since his Passover. So beautiful, my brothers and sisters, mysteries of Jesus' public life, the keys to the kingdom, you know, the Holy Catholic Church, the redemption of death, and God's plan of salvation, the foretaste of the kingdom and the transfiguration, the empty tomb, the appearances of the risen Christ, especially this road to Emmaus. We all travel this road to Emmaus and the meaning and saving significance of the resurrection. These are all the teachings from this gospel teaching today, my brothers and sisters, that we have listed in our podcast. I hope you're able to go through those and look at at least a few of those. We've covered about half of them. That's all we can do in this short little while. And then we always finish with this prayer 2625, the age of the church. In the first place, these prayers of the faithful are here and read the scriptures. We read the scriptures, but also they make their own, especially those of the Psalms, and view the fulfillment of Christ. The Holy Spirit is calling you and calling me, my brothers and sisters, to pray. Pray, pray, pray. Pray for our country, pray for our leaders, pray for peace, but also pray for justice too. And let us not be pacifists, but let us be courageous. Courageous as Christ is courageous, as God is courageous. My brothers and sisters, may your whole household be at peace. May Almighty God bless you all. In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Amen. God bless you all. We love you. Make peace in your family. Make peace in your family. God bless. We love you.