Prayer, the Easter Octave Wednesday heart, come Holy Spirit, I felt a
life worth living. Therefore, from my doubts, fears, wearyness and weaknesses,
I want to invoke you, come Holy Spirit for a gift that you
are. Dry come to strengthen what is weak, come to heal what is
sick. Transform me, restore me, renew me with intimate and fruitful tuation.
Today we celebrate St Richard of Vitchen from the 13th century, the Gospel
is those lucas chapter twenty- four verses thirteen from now on. Two disciples
of Jesus were walking that same day, the first of the week, to
a village called distant Emmaus. About two leagues in Jerusalem were commenting on everything
that had happened. While they were talking and arguing in person Jesus came up
and started walking with them, but their eyes were unable to recognize him and
told them what conversation is That which you bring between you as you go on
your way, they stopped worried. One of them, calling Clophas, replied,
“ You are the only stranger from Jerusalem who does not know what has
happened here these days” He asked them and what happened. They answered Jesus
of Nazareth, who was a powerful prophet in deeds and words before God and
the people. How the sumos, priests, and our chiefs gave him up
to be condemned to death and crucified him. We expected him to be the
future deliverer of Israel. She' s seen you two days ago. What
happened here? It is true that some women in our group have startled us,
for they went very early in the morning to the tomb. They did
not find his body and in Russian they came saying that they had seen an
appearance of angels who had told them that he was alive. Some of us
also went to the tomb and found him, as the women had said,
but they did not see him. Then Jesus said what a fool and all
that you are to want what the prophets announced. It was not necessary for
the Messiah to palle this in order to enter into his glory and beginning with
Moses and following the prophets, it was explained what he meant in all the
scripture, already near the village where they went. He made them go on,
but they pressed him, saying," Stay with us, for it
is late, and the day is fallen, and he went in to stay
with them" Sitting at the table with them he took the bread, pronounced
the blessing, broke it and gave it to them and opened their eyes and
recognized it, but he disappeared. They said they did not burn our hearts
as they spoke to us along the way and they did not explain the scriptures
and rose up at the moment, they returned to Jerusalem, where they found
noises to the eleven with their companions who were saying it was true. The
Lord is risen and has appeared to Simon and they told what had happened to
them along the way and how they had recognized him when they broke the bread.
Think of the episode of the disciples of Maurs It is necessary to know
how to enter into dialogue with the men and women of today in order to
understand their expectations, their doubts, their hopes and to be able to offer
them the Gospel, that is, Jesus Christ, God made, man and
dead and risen to free them from sin and death. This challenge requires depth,
attention to life, spiritual sensitivity. Dialogue means being convinced that the other
has something good to say, accepting his point of view, his proposals,
and home does not mean giving up copies of ideas other editions, but rather
the claim that they are unique and absolute. The last chapter of the Gospel
of Mercy tells us an event that has been repeated in hundreds of narratives.
What have inspired the best- known works of art. What has prompted conversions
has inspired Christians on the path of Holiness. It begins with two disenchanted disciples
who are abandoning the cause for which three years earlier they had left everything.
But now, after three days of waiting for the teacher they had believed in,
they had convinced themselves of their foolishness, were disillusioned and set out to
try to rebuild their lives that they had left behind. It was a weekend.
They had escaped the only ideal that had reached their young hearts on their
way Christ appeared to them, but although they saw him, something prevented them
from recognizing him. Here we have to ask ourselves why. Why don'
t you recognize on your face after you' ve followed them three years,
Three years, Why don' t you recognize your voice after you' ve
left all day you heard your call, why don' t you recognize your
words after you' ve heard him preach so many times. Perhaps it is
because, as they themselves admit, he had given up on their hopes that
he would be the liberator of Israel' s temptation. The obstacle is not
that they don' t have Anjels next door walking with them, they expect
to see someone different. Then they will never see Jesus. No matter how
clearly the hope that they had had little appears to them, and in their
measure does not allow them to accept the glory and joy of the resurrection.
But Jesus does not allow them to let themselves want to conquer them to do
forever. He' s doing the trick of moving on so he can be
invited to dinner. And there, in the privacy of a small room,
it is revealed to him by giving himself the Bread Party. Perhaps it was
such a peculiar way that Jesus tended to break the Bread, which would make
them see who his traveling companion was, or simply that he would open their
eyes as Bartimaeus, the zygus of birth. Either way, it is an
image of the euphoric Eucharist. They run to Jerusalem under the light of the
stars, has risen and lives with them forever. They let themselves be conquered
by the hope that offers them. Jesus and the Auchorst and the Eucharist always
carry him with them forever. From the Bread they understand that Jesus is alive.
They join Mr Pasta as long as they go out to announce. The
afternoon' s already down. It doesn' t matter. They have received
all the love of God. In a moment, Jesus disappears. They become
pilgrims. Now they are moved by desire, love, fire. Now they
begin to dream because the love of Jesus has remained in their hearts and they
burn looking moved with light. The veil' s broken. Jesus is alive.
Jesus is alive. I repeat, they can' t stay in the
Maus. His life in that little village no longer makes sense. The women
were right. His apparent absence from the wall is a real presence. The
beauty is that Jesus is with us. Let' s see it or not.
The disciples alone recognize him in the end, but Jesus is always with
them. That' s why you can walk. That' s why we
can walk. Jesus goes with us, approaches us, adapts to our rhythm,
listens welcomes. That' s always the way it is. Every day
we return to Maus to burn in his heart there. There we become pilgrims.
Today make a visit to Jesus, even if it is virtually to reflect
on providence life, so that you never derogate from or doubt his word.
Christ has risen. You' re alive and walk with me. What a
wonderful experience. My heart is filled with joy and I want to sing,
I want to shout, I want to convey that certainty to others. I
am not alone Christ wants to be with me. He is alive in Christ,
waiting patiently for me, I can be indifferent or passive in the face
of so much love. That is why today I ask you to give me
the strength to run to share this good news with my family and others.
I give the blessing God, Father who by the resolution of his son has
redeemed you and given you the grace and has given you the grace of the
filial choice. It fills you with joy of his blessing Christ who by his
redemption sustained perfect freedom. May I grant you to share in the eternal inheritance
and you, risen with him in baptism by faith through a holy life,
may come to the heavenly homeland, the union of God almighty father, son
and holy spirit, descend upon you and remain always amen