The Road to Emmaus A new Emmaus trail in Israel is ready for pilgrims, but is it on the right track?On the 21st of march, 2021, Linda Gradstein wrote in the Jerusalem Post “Pilgrims can walk the new 18-km. (11-mile) Emmaus Trail that now goes from the Saxum Visitor Center in ...
The road to Emmaus is not just a physical path but a symbolic journey of faith and discovery. In the historical context, roads were places of travel and transition, often associated with encounters and revelations. This setting underscores the idea that Jesus meets us in the midst of our ...
You will not read much before the Holy Spirit will make the Word burn in your heart. You will say like the two men on the road to Emmaus "Did not our heart burn within us when he revealed the scriptures to us?" Any time there is danger in the spiritual direction we may be going ...
On the Road to Emmaus - Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with
his resurrection on the road to Emmaus . They didn’t know who he was at first, but when their eyes were opened, Jesus disappeared. And they asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us when he talked with us on the road and opened the Scripture to us?” (Luke 24:32...
Walking on the road to Emmaus on resurrection Sunday, Jesus rebukes two of His disciples for reading the Scriptures incorrectly: “Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things...
12 But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths [d]lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened. The Road to Emmaus 13 Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was ...
For example He says in Luke’s Gospel (Lk 12:49) “I have come to cast fire on the earth”, a fire of blazing love and zeal for Him and His Gospel message. Such fervor could be quite catchy. As the two disciples asked themselves after seeing our Lord on the road to Emmaus: “We...
on the road to Emmaus, Jesus walks with two of his disciples and, “beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself” (Luke 24:27). St. Luke doesn’t say Scripture interpreted itself to the disciples. Jesus interpreted ...
Two disciples spend the afternoon on the road to Emmaus with the unrecognized Jesus. At dinner Jesus reveals himself to them by blessing and breaking the bread and then vanishes. As they reflect on their lesson from Scripture with Jesus, they share how their hearts were kindled. Literally, ...