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Video – Music – In the Breaking of the Bread

apostolate — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:26:58 +0000

Immaculate Music #5 – Fr. Maximilian and Michael Grogan sing about the disciples on the road to Emmaus. >>> Play

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This song, In the Breaking of the Bread, sung by Fr. Maximilian Dean and Michael Grogan puts into music today’s Gospel reading of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus and how the risen Lord appeared to them, but they did not recognize Him until the breaking of the bread, a good meditation on finding Jesus today in the Eucharist. Words and Music by Michael P. Ward, World Library Publications. Come, walk down the road with us…

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Mar 26 – Homily – Fr Ignatius: On the Road to Emmaus

apostolate — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:12:42 +0000

Homily #080326 ( 05min) Play – By faith in the Word of God the disiples were able to recognize Christ, the Word of God Incarnate, on the road to Emmaus so too by faith we will be able to see him; and this will be the antidote to recent, false interpretations of Scripture, to read it with the eyes of faith and so be able to see truth.
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Mane Nobiscum Domine

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:00:19 +0000

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With each passing year the unfolding of the Resurrection Gospel of Emmaus becomes more luminous, more transparent like the favorite page in an old book, the page that with each reading delights one anew. The repetition and ritual recurrence of the Word shapes and reshapes the Church, making her ever more perfectly Christ’s beloved Bride, the Companion of the New Adam, born from His pierced side. You recall that it was this very page of the Gospel that was given us by the Servant of God, Pope John Paul II as the heart of his message for the Year of the Eucharist. He presented the mystery of Emmaus as a kind of Eucharistic icon.

Stay With Us, Lord

Mane nobiscum, Domine. “Stay with us, Lord, for it is almost evening” (Lk 24:29). In making these words the title of his Apostolic Letter for the Year of the Eucharist, Pope John Paul II gave the Church a clear orientation for our times. He gave each one of us a kind of personal spiritual direction. More than that, he taught us to pray using these very words: Mane nobiscum, Domine. “Stay with us, Lord.” He taught us to pray as the Holy Spirit had taught the two disciples on the road to Emmaus to pray. Poor wayfarers they were: bewildered and dejected men, sorrowing and not quite knowing what to think, not quite knowing what to do with their lives.

Christ the Wayfarer

Another Wayfarer came to walk with them on the way. Pope John Paul II writes that, “weighed down with sadness, they never imagined that this stranger was none other than their Master risen from the dead. Yet they felt their hearts burning within them (cf. v. 32) as he spoke to them and ‘explained’ the Scriptures. The light of the Word unlocked the hardness of their hearts and ‘opened their eyes’ (cf. v. 31).”

The Prayer of Desire

It was at this moment that the Holy Spirit caused a mysterious invocation to well up from deep inside them. They spoke prophetically, not for themselves alone, for all wayfarers of every time and place. They spoke for the pilgrim Church, for the Church hungry and thirsty as she makes her way through history. They spoke for the Church, the Bride of Christ, burning with desire to behold His Face, to hear His voice, to abide, adoring, in His presence. “Stay with us, Lord” (Lk 24:29).

The Real Presence

Taking their prayer to heart, Jesus “went in with them” (Lk 24:29). “And it came to pass, whilst He was at table with them, He took bread, and blessed, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him: and he vanished out of their sight” (Lk 24:30-31). He vanished out of their sight, but His real presence remained. There, in the Bread set before them on the table, they began, with the eyes of faith, to discern the Eucharistic Face of their Lord, the blessed Countenance of Christ hidden beneath the sacramental veils.

Eucharistic Adoration

In that moment, after that mysterious Breaking of the Bread, two disciples, with a fire burning in their hearts, discovered with amazement the Eucharistic adoration that, over the course of the centuries, would be discovered and cherished by the Church obedient to the command of her Lord: “Do this for a commemoration of me” (Lk 22:19).

Eucharistic Conversion

Pope John Paul II’s Year of the Eucharist was more than a passing observance; it was a grace of conversion in the strictest sense of the word: a turning toward the Eucharistic Face, a rekindling of that fire that burned in the hearts of the disciples of Emmaus. The Year of the Eucharist was a beginning, not an end. What have we done with its unique grace? How has it changed us? We will be held accountable for it. “And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more” (Lk 12:48).

The Eucharistic Face of Christ

Live, then, in the radiance of the Eucharistic Face of Christ. Adore the abiding presence of the Divine Wayfarer. The Paschal Mystery is fire and light. That the fire may burn brightly within, pray ceaselessly: Mane nobiscum, Domine (Lk 24:29). And that the light of His Face may shine before your eyes, say with faith again and again: “Lift up the light of your Face on us, O Lord” (Ps 66:2).

by Father Mark

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Apr 03 – Homily – Fr Elias: Going the Right Way

apostolate — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:31:10 +0000

Homily #130403b ( 12min) Play – Fr. Elias on the Gospel account of the disciples on the road of to Emmaus. He points out that the disciples were heading the wrong way, leaving Jerusalem where the Resurrection had just taken place. This is because they where thinking about the Messiah in a worldly, political way. It is His presence that gives them the clarity of who He is and how to be true disciples. So we should look to His Real presence in the Eucharist to find our way.
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Mass: Wednesday of Easter Week – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: act 3:1-10
Resp: psa 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9
Gsp: luk 24:13-35

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Apr 23 – Homily – Fr Maximilian W: We Have Seen the Lord

apostolate — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:27:12 +0000

Homily #140423n ( 06min) Play – Father Maximilian comments on today’s Gospel, which is the appearance of the Lord to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wednesday of Easter Week – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: act 3:1-10
Resp: psa 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9
Gsp: luk 24:13-35

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May 04 – Homily – Fr Benedict: Hopes and the Fire of God’s Love

Griswold Friars — Sun, 04 May 2014 14:47:15 +0000

Homily #140504 ( 13min) Play – The disciples on the road to Emmaus had hopes that were not in line with God’s will. It wasn’t until that Our Lord revealed the truth to them that the consuming fire of God’s love burned within their hearts.
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Mass: Sunday 3rd Week of Easter – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: act 2:14, 22-28
Resp: psa 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11
2nd: 1pe 1:17-21
Gsp: luk 24:13-35

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Apr 08 – Homily – Fr Maximilian W: On the Road to Emmaus

apostolate — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:55:03 +0000

Homily #150408n ( 05min) Play – Father comments on today’s Gospel reading.
Ave Maria!
Mass: Wednesday of Easter Week – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: act 3:1-10
Resp: psa 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9
Gsp: luk 24:13-35

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Holy Heartburn for Jesus – Apr 15 – Homily – Fr Ignatius

apostolate — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:57:58 +0000

Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Apr 15, 2020, on how the disciples on the road to Emmaus got Holy Heartburn when they spoke with Jesus.

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Mass: Wednesday of Easter Week – Wkdy

Readings: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/041520.cfm

1st: act 3:1-10
Resp: psa 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9 0
Gsp: luk 24:13-35

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Listen to the Church and Holy Spirit – Apr 18 – Homily – Fr Terrance

apostolate — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 22:18:00 +0000

Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Apr 18, 2020, on how the three appearances of the Risen Christ in the Gospel Mark. These include at the Tomb to Mary Magdalene, the two disciples on the Road to Emmaus, then to the eleven apostles. Jesus does not appear to everyone but to those he chooses and we need to believe these chosen ones. In other words, the voice of the Church is the voice of God and we need to listen. Further, the lack of faith of the apostles in believing these witnesses shows that we need grace through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in order to live up to what Christ wants from us.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Saturday of Easter Week – Wkdy
Readings:
1st: act 4:13-21
Resp: psa 118:1, 14-15, 16-18, 19-21 0
Gsp: mar 16:9-15

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