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Mary Hooton and Fr. Eamonn McCarthy reflect on Luke’s Emmaus account for the Third Sunday of Easter. Fr. Eamonn opens by noting the Lord’s method: rather than announcing himself, he draws the disciples out — “tell me your story, tell me what you know” — meeting them precisely in their downcastness and disappointment, and their mistaken expectation that Jesus would be the one to restore Israel’s political kingship over Rome.

The Emmaus journey is read as a mirror of the Mass itself: an entrance procession, an implicit confession of failure and need for conversion, a Liturgy of the Word in dialogue form from Moses through all the prophets, and then the Liturgy of the Eucharist at table. It is this final step, the breaking of bread, that finally opens their eyes. Mary develops the connection between the Old and New Testaments, urging against the tendency to skip the Old Testament, and reflecting on how prayer is not something God needs from us but is the means by which our own blockages and resistances fall away so that God’s already-present grace can reach us. The psalm response — “I keep the Lord ever in my sight; since he is at my right hand I shall stand firm” — closes the programme.

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