Sunday, April 15, 2012

on the road to Emmaus

Good morning sisters and brothers,
Today's reading picks up where yesterday's left off: Jesus is walking with two of his disciples after his resurrection, but they don't know it is Jesus. He has just drawn out from them their sense of what has happened; now he responds to teach them how his death and resurrection fulfill the prophecies about the Messiah. This lesson will prepare the disciples to use the Bible to bear witness to Christ's love as they share the good news with the world.

God bless,
Sam




Luke 24:25-35
25Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared! 26Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?” 27Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures. 28As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on. 29But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them.


30When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight. 32They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?” 33That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together. 34They were saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!” 35Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.

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