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Apr 6 – Homily – Fr Angelo: The Road to Emmaus

apostolate — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:05:35 +0000

Homily #080406 ( 21min) Play – Our Lady of Sorrows stood at the Foot of the Cross,?watched Her Son, who was Heaven itself, being torn from Her heart, ?and She took it like a man? This homily contains a beautiful explaination of Our Lady’s role at the foot of the Cross.

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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 23 – Homily – Fr John Joseph: In the Breaking of Bread

apostolate — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:39:01 +0000

Homily #140423b ( 12min) Play – Fr. John Joseph preaches on the Gospel account of Our Lord making Himself manifest to the disciples in Emmaus when he breaks bread with them.
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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Apr 08 – Homily – Fr Alan: Recognizing Our Lord

apostolate — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:41:42 +0000

Homily #150408b ( 07min) Play – Fr. Alan preaches on how Our Lord helps us to recognize His presence among us especially in the Eucharist.
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.

Ave Maria!

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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Importance of the Church & Praying Together – Apr 07 – Homily – Fr Ignatius

apostolate — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:56:35 +0000

Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Apr 07, 2021, on how it important to be a member of Christ’s Church and to pray together in a church. He gives five reasons why prayer is more powerful in a church, together with other Christians:

– 1st Public invocation
– 2nd Christ present in His Church
– 3rd Prayers more accepted by God when offered together
– 4th Saints present relics
– 5th Encourage one another

Ave Maria!

Mass: Wednesday of Easter Week – Wkdy
Readings: – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/040721.cfm
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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The Solution to Our Biggest Burden – Apr 20 – Homily – Fr Terrance

apostolate — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 11:00:45 +0000

Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Apr 20, 2022, on how the discourse on the road to Emmaus we are predestined to follow in the path of suffering that Christ walked and so be co-redeemers with Christ and thus be the solution to our biggest burden, which is not suffering but the weight of our own sins.

Suffering is an experiential proof that Christ is with us.

Being a co-redeemer is a special grace, to suffer with and for Christ

Mary did this in a unique way, participating in the redemption

Paul, Colossians, I rejoice in my suffering making up for what is lacking in Christ’s suffering

Ave Maria!

Mass: Wednesday of Easter Week – Wkdy
Readings: – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/042022.cfm
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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Christ Revealed in Miracles and the Liturgy – Apr 12 – Homily – Fr John Lawrence

apostolate — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:59:14 +0000

Fr John Lawrence gives the homily at Bloomington, IN, on Apr 12, 2023, on how people need to recognize the power and presence of Jesus. This is done by miracles as is seen by those performed by the apostles in the reading from Acts, but also through the mass where the presence of the resurrected Lord is made manifest as it was for the disciples on the road to Emmaus.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Wednesday of Easter Week – Wkdy
Readings: – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/041223.cfm
1st: act 3:1-10
Resp: psa 105:1-4, 6-9
Gsp: luk 24:13-35

More on the Readings: http://dev.airmaria.com/r?m=1692

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