Redeeming The Time

The Road to Emmaus story, told intimately in the third person by St. Luke (Luke 24:12-35), teaches us profoundly about how human nature encounters the divine. It involves unbelief! We must know how to deal with our unbelief. All of us have it; it is our "road to Emmaus." Why did the apostles not recognize the Lord? We must understand, because the same thing happens to us. The solution to our ignorance is shown brilliantly, by their question after the Lord broke bread in their presence: "Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?" A Christian must have a heart that burns. We explain what this means and how to cultivate such a heart. Also, a small liturgical question is answered: Why are the Gospels the way we learn about life and how to be a true human being? There are two main reasons. Why read a resurrectional Gospel from Luke during Bright Week when we are in the midst of reading from John?