12 April 2023
Wednesday in the Octave of Easter
Today’s Gospel is the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Jesus meets two disciples who were walking away from Jerusalem and away from where Christ died pondering, doubting, and questioning what had happened during that eventful first Easter weekend.
As our Gospel relates, the two disciples found the testimony of those who had seen Christ hard to believe. Into this place of doubt, fear, and reflection, Christ meets them along the way. The resurrected Christ sets their hearts on fire with his love and impelled by this they return to “recount what had been made known to them along the way.”
This line offers to us a key insight for our prayer this day: our faith, while always personal, ought never to be exclusively private. The resurrected Christ, when he comes to meet you and me, desires that we share something of this encounter with others like the disciples from today’s Gospel. Too often, perhaps out of fear and embarrassment, we hold our faith and our personal encounters with Christ to ourselves never sharing them with those around us. This Easter season, let us be like the disciples on the Road back from Emmaus and take the risk of sharing with others what has happened to us on our road of walking with the Resurrected Christ.