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Prayer, the Easter Octave Wednesday heart, come Holy Spirit, I felt a

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life worth living. Therefore, from
my doubts, fears, wearyness and weaknesses,

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I want to invoke you, come
Holy Spirit for a gift that you

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are. Dry come to strengthen what
is weak, come to heal what is

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sick. Transform me, restore me, renew me with intimate and fruitful tuation.

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Today we celebrate St Richard of Vitchen
from the 13th century, the Gospel

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is those lucas chapter twenty- four
verses thirteen from now on. Two disciples

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of Jesus were walking that same day, the first of the week, to

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a village called distant Emmaus. About
two leagues in Jerusalem were commenting on everything

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that had happened. While they were
talking and arguing in person Jesus came up

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and started walking with them, but
their eyes were unable to recognize him and

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told them what conversation is That which
you bring between you as you go on

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your way, they stopped worried.
One of them, calling Clophas, replied,

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“ You are the only stranger from
Jerusalem who does not know what has

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happened here these days” He asked
them and what happened. They answered Jesus

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of Nazareth, who was a powerful
prophet in deeds and words before God and

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the people. How the sumos,
priests, and our chiefs gave him up

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to be condemned to death and crucified
him. We expected him to be the

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future deliverer of Israel. She'
s seen you two days ago. What

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happened here? It is true that
some women in our group have startled us,

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for they went very early in the
morning to the tomb. They did

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not find his body and in Russian
they came saying that they had seen an

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appearance of angels who had told them
that he was alive. Some of us

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also went to the tomb and found
him, as the women had said,

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but they did not see him.
Then Jesus said what a fool and all

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that you are to want what the
prophets announced. It was not necessary for

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the Messiah to palle this in order
to enter into his glory and beginning with

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Moses and following the prophets, it
was explained what he meant in all the

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scripture, already near the village where
they went. He made them go on,

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but they pressed him, saying," Stay with us, for it

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is late, and the day is
fallen, and he went in to stay

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with them" Sitting at the table
with them he took the bread, pronounced

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the blessing, broke it and gave
it to them and opened their eyes and

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recognized it, but he disappeared.
They said they did not burn our hearts

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as they spoke to us along the
way and they did not explain the scriptures

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and rose up at the moment,
they returned to Jerusalem, where they found

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noises to the eleven with their companions
who were saying it was true. The

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Lord is risen and has appeared to
Simon and they told what had happened to

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them along the way and how they
had recognized him when they broke the bread.

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Think of the episode of the disciples
of Maurs It is necessary to know

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how to enter into dialogue with the
men and women of today in order to

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understand their expectations, their doubts,
their hopes and to be able to offer

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them the Gospel, that is,
Jesus Christ, God made, man and

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dead and risen to free them from
sin and death. This challenge requires depth,

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attention to life, spiritual sensitivity.
Dialogue means being convinced that the other

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has something good to say, accepting
his point of view, his proposals,

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and home does not mean giving up
copies of ideas other editions, but rather

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the claim that they are unique and
absolute. The last chapter of the Gospel

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of Mercy tells us an event that
has been repeated in hundreds of narratives.

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What have inspired the best- known
works of art. What has prompted conversions

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has inspired Christians on the path of
Holiness. It begins with two disenchanted disciples

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who are abandoning the cause for which
three years earlier they had left everything.

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But now, after three days of
waiting for the teacher they had believed in,

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they had convinced themselves of their foolishness, were disillusioned and set out to

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try to rebuild their lives that they
had left behind. It was a weekend.

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They had escaped the only ideal that
had reached their young hearts on their

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way Christ appeared to them, but
although they saw him, something prevented them

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from recognizing him. Here we have
to ask ourselves why. Why don'

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t you recognize on your face after
you' ve followed them three years,

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Three years, Why don' t
you recognize your voice after you' ve

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left all day you heard your call, why don' t you recognize your

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words after you' ve heard him
preach so many times. Perhaps it is

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because, as they themselves admit,
he had given up on their hopes that

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he would be the liberator of Israel' s temptation. The obstacle is not

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that they don' t have Anjels
next door walking with them, they expect

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to see someone different. Then they
will never see Jesus. No matter how

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clearly the hope that they had had
little appears to them, and in their

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measure does not allow them to accept
the glory and joy of the resurrection.

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But Jesus does not allow them to
let themselves want to conquer them to do

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forever. He' s doing the
trick of moving on so he can be

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invited to dinner. And there,
in the privacy of a small room,

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it is revealed to him by giving
himself the Bread Party. Perhaps it was

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such a peculiar way that Jesus tended
to break the Bread, which would make

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them see who his traveling companion was, or simply that he would open their

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eyes as Bartimaeus, the zygus of
birth. Either way, it is an

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image of the euphoric Eucharist. They
run to Jerusalem under the light of the

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stars, has risen and lives with
them forever. They let themselves be conquered

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by the hope that offers them.
Jesus and the Auchorst and the Eucharist always

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carry him with them forever. From
the Bread they understand that Jesus is alive.

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They join Mr Pasta as long as
they go out to announce. The

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afternoon' s already down. It
doesn' t matter. They have received

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all the love of God. In
a moment, Jesus disappears. They become

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pilgrims. Now they are moved by
desire, love, fire. Now they

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begin to dream because the love of
Jesus has remained in their hearts and they

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burn looking moved with light. The
veil' s broken. Jesus is alive.

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Jesus is alive. I repeat,
they can' t stay in the

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Maus. His life in that little
village no longer makes sense. The women

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were right. His apparent absence from
the wall is a real presence. The

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beauty is that Jesus is with us. Let' s see it or not.

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The disciples alone recognize him in the
end, but Jesus is always with

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them. That' s why you
can walk. That' s why we

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can walk. Jesus goes with us, approaches us, adapts to our rhythm,

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listens welcomes. That' s always
the way it is. Every day

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we return to Maus to burn in
his heart there. There we become pilgrims.

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Today make a visit to Jesus,
even if it is virtually to reflect

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on providence life, so that you
never derogate from or doubt his word.

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Christ has risen. You' re
alive and walk with me. What a

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wonderful experience. My heart is filled
with joy and I want to sing,

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I want to shout, I want
to convey that certainty to others. I

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am not alone Christ wants to be
with me. He is alive in Christ,

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waiting patiently for me, I can
be indifferent or passive in the face

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of so much love. That is
why today I ask you to give me

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the strength to run to share this
good news with my family and others.

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I give the blessing God, Father
who by the resolution of his son has

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redeemed you and given you the grace
and has given you the grace of the

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filial choice. It fills you with
joy of his blessing Christ who by his

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redemption sustained perfect freedom. May I
grant you to share in the eternal inheritance

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and you, risen with him in
baptism by faith through a holy life,

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may come to the heavenly homeland,
the union of God almighty father, son

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and holy spirit, descend upon you
and remain always amen