Friends:
How easily one can identify today with the disciples of Emmaus, returning home discouraged. They suffered the abuses of Roman oppression and had placed their hopes in a political Messiah.
No matter how much they try to gloss over all wars, today as yesterday, greed, the lust for power, and vanity are behind all armed conflicts. Jesus’ recipe is much more powerful and stimulating>. And of course peaceful. Do not discard anyone, integrate the different, share what we have with those who do not have. And it is about to debut>. Let us return like those of Emmaus, with renewed spirit. We have much to do.
We recall the link to the interview with Father Marcos for those who have not seen it yet: What the Church didn’t tell you about the Historical Jesus.
Gospel and commentary on the Gospel
Luke 24:13-35. The two of Emmaus. Stay with us, as it is getting dark… Their eyes were opened and rising at once, they turned back to Jerusalem.
Miguel Ángel Munárriz Casajús: The Lord. And we are witnesses of it.
José Luis Sicre: From disillusionment to enthusiasm. Luke offers a peculiar version of the events. At the end of his gospel he only recounts three appearances, and in all three accounts, a common element is catechesis and the message that the Messiah had to suffer and die to enter into his glory.
Enrique Martínez Lozano: Emmaus or disappointment. If we live expecting our expectations to be met, disappointment will appear sooner or later.
Father Marcos: I will make living Jesus present by sharing. Any other attitude will kill him.
José Antonio Pagola: Remembering Jesus more. The account of the disciples of Emmaus describes the experience lived by two followers of Jesus while walking from Jerusalem to the small village of Emmaus.
Fidel Aizpurúa Donazar: Their eyes were opened. It seems that Jesus made significant gestures that spoke of his idea of the kingdom, such as starting with the last in a banquet.
Paula Depalma: Redirection after the resurrection. And in that pilgrimage and at that stop on their paths, they encounter something unexpected: life does not end with death; what seemed like defeat can be a step.
Selected articles for the week
Joan Planellas: Let us seek the things above. Today we rise filled with a new light. Like every year, the Church invites us to focus on the Easter of the Lord, the core, foundation, and meaning of true Christian faith.
José Lorenzo: The Pope’s plea in the vigil for peace: “Enough of self-idolatry and money! Enough of the display of force! Enough of war!”. In a heartfelt ceremony, he implores peace from St. Peter’s Basilica in “this dramatic hour of history” and invites Christians to become “artisans of peace.”
Carmiña Navia Velasco: Encounter in the afternoon, road to Emmaus. Her word reaches them deeply and they ask the strange traveler to stay with them because “it is already late to continue,” but above all because his word warmed their hearts.
José Arregi: What will become of my individual self after death? It is one of the essential questions for which I have no answer.
María África de la Cruz: Review of Pepa Torres’ book “GUIDED BY DESIRE”. Journeys of love and proximity. It is a manual of renewed Christian spirituality: committed to the social reality of those wounded by life. It is a book to read while praying and thus internalize in depth.
Gabriel Mª Otalora: Saint Thomas is fashionable. We live in a culture where empirical verification has been elevated to the category of religion. What cannot be measured does not exist.
Jordi Pacheco: Salvatore Cernuzio: “The private face of Pope Francis was not far from the public”. The Italian journalist publishes Padre, an intimate account of his relationship with the Pope one year after his death.
Hermann Rodríguez Osorio: Do not be unbelieving; believe! This Sunday we have a good opportunity to review the trust we have in the Lord.
News of scope. Exploitation, migrations, and peace: The darts in the Pope’s word on his next trip to Africa.
For more participatory and current Eucharists
Acts 2:14 and 22-33. God raised Jesus of Nazareth, and we are all witnesses.
1 Peter 1:17-21. Through Christ you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that you may place your faith and hope in God.
Florentino Ulibarri: Words from the heart. While we walked sadly, you approached our doubts, fears, and discouragements respectfully.
Vicky Irigaray: 3rd Easter Sunday. We can see the risen one in the unknown person, in the walker, in the pilgrim who approaches, in the neighbor, in the breaking of the bread…
Anaphora: Easter experience. The imprint left by Jesus is the key to the disciples’ Easter experience and to our faith.
Benedictine Nuns of Montserrat. 3rd Easter Sunday.
Multimedia material
When you become friends with the present… By Eckhart Tolle. If you are not comfortable in the Now, you will feel uncomfortable wherever you go…
To be a little better. A beautiful song for meditation and enjoyment.
Salomé Arricibita: Opening our eyes. Emmaus Road. The disciples, like us, do not recognize the teacher. Stranger, walker… Lord… They need and we need to get out of our fears to be able to “see” with the eyes of the heart. May we learn to look at the everyday from Jesus… and run to tell it…
Thanks to life. By Naurea Soma. This song is a simple and sincere embrace of life. A reminder that in the everyday—a coffee at dawn, a shared laugh, even a farewell—there is always a reason to be grateful.
Equipo Quiero Ver: Question of faith Faith usually makes its way little by little, amidst questions, voids, and searches that we often do not even know how to express. Even when we walk with tiredness or disillusionment, like the disciples of Emmaus, God continues to meet us and awaken something new in the heart.
Emmaus. Like the disciples walking to Emmaus with broken hearts, this song is born from the living encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist, in the Word, and in community. Because when He reveals Himself… the heart burns and nothing ever returns to being the same.
In the EFFA School we facilitate access to the curriculum where all available talks and bibliography are located, for those who could not watch them or wish to review any again. The link to access the latest videos that have been uploaded may also be useful.
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A hug,
Inma Calvo
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