This Sunday the Gospel is Luke’s wonderful story about the two disciples on the way to Emmaus. It is a heart-warming story and we can easily identify with the two disciples feeling crushed by the weight of their shattered dreams. They don’t believe the story of the women that Jesus is alive. They don’t recognise the stranger when he walks beside them. Perhaps that’s because they are so involved in their own hurt and disappointment, and doesn’t that sometimes happen to us, too? What does Jesus do?

First, he invites them to share with him their story, he lets them talk it out. Then he draws them into the bigger story of his life, death and resurrection by unfolding the scriptures for them. Their hope is rebuilt and their hearts begin ‘to burn’ as Jesus talks.

By the end of the story, two sad, depressed, down-hearted, grieving men have been transformed into impatient, enthusiastic heralds of good news through their encounter with Jesus. It is the same Jesus whom we encounter in our hearts and in the Eucharist. Maybe we, too, could spend a little time sharing with Jesus our story, especially in these difficult and uncertain days, and listening more deeply to his.

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