As He Speaks to Us
The two
disciples did not recognize Jesus, who was walking with them.
St. Luke
explained that “their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.”
Apparently,
it was not just because their physical eyes did not recognize Jesus.
Their
vision was obscured by their disappointments, doubts, and sadness.
Yet, as
they later recalled, even when they had not recognized the Risen Lord, their
hearts were still “burning within [them] while he spoke … and opened the
Scriptures to [them].”
In these
days, we are dealing with our own anxieties, fears, doubts, and sadness. We pray that the Risen Lord help us recognize
him walking with us. May our hearts burn
within us as he speaks and listens to us, and open the Scriptures to us.
Image source: William Brassey Hole,
Jesus appearing to two disciples on the road to Emmaus,
www.wikigallery.org.
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