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52. The Journey to Emmaus.
On that Sunday two
disciples went together to Emmaus, a village near Jerusalem. They were
not of the eleven, but they talked together about these events and were
sad. They already knew that the women had found the tomb empty and that
angels had spoken to them. But they did not yet have much faith in the
resurrection. Then the Risen One came to them, not in his familiar form,
his face was not revealed to them, and joined them, as travellers on the
road sometimes do. ‘What are these words,’ he asked them, ‘that you are
exchanging with one another, and why are you so sad?’ The disciples
began to trust the stranger who was with them. They said to him, ‘Are
you the only one among the strangers in Jerusalem who does not know what
has happened in these days?’ They thought that all people must know and
all think about what made them so sad and lay so heavy in their hearts.
He asked them what they meant. He wanted to give them the opportunity to
lighten their hearts by sharing. They said: "That of Jesus, who was a
prophet, mighty in deed and word before God and all men. Our priests,‘
they said, ’delivered him up to death, that he might be crucified. But
we hoped that he would redeem Israel." Then he began to explain to them
from the writings of Moses and the prophets that Christ had to suffer
these things so that he could enter into his glory.
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