Today, the universal Church continues to celebrate the Resurrection of her Lord. The Easter Season is a blessed time for us to recall the Lord’s presence among us and to deepen in our sense of mission ...

Jesus opens the Scriptures for two disciples on the way to Emmaus, but we have to guess which Scriptures they were. Why did Jesus die? Jesus died to save us from sin and death. In the Gospel of Luke ...

Photo from iStock. Credit: ZvonimirAtleti. Ignatius Loyola left behind certain meditative tools for anyone who wished to activate their interior life through prayer. One of these is called the “Examen ...

Christian tradition identifies this ancient basilica as the place where Jesus revealed himself to two disciples when he broke bread, after traveling several miles with them. These are the ruins of ...

A depiction of the gospel scene of Emmaus. (Credit: Fraternita di Emmaus.) Listen As the universal Church continues to celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection through the Easter Season, Christians are ...

The story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus is a favorite of mine. I love the image of pilgrims traveling together, struggling to understand tragedy and loss. I love that Jesus enters the story ...

Over the next few Sundays, churchgoers are going to hear a lot about the journey to Emmaus, one of the most moving and evocative stories in the gospels. But dare I say that it is often preached with a ...

In the first sentence in tomorrow’s Gospel (Luke 24: 13 – 35) Luke tells the reader that two of Jesus’s disciples were on their way to Emmaus, and they were talking about all that had happened. For ...

Has it ever happened that you fell in with a stranger on a long journey and discovered love, encouragement and self-understanding? Is this what is called ‘serendipity’, the habit of discovering ...