We wish you the peace and joy of Easter, and hope that the light of the Risen Christ shines brightly in the lives of you and your loved ones.
We hope the reflections below help you to contemplate the experience of the first disciples to encounter the Risen Lord, and in turn to recognise his presence in your life. And you can find more Easter reading at thinkingfaith.org/tags/Easter, or on Twitter and Facebook. Happy Easter!
Whatever the reason for Mary’s inability to recognise Jesus, what follows is one of the most tender passages in the whole gospel. Only when Jesus speaks her name does Mary know him. Read >>
You can see the structure of the Emmaus story as a skeleton for the Spiritual Exercises. You can see it as an example of the Pastoral Cycle. However, what is most obvious is how the narrative has the shape of the Eucharistic liturgy. Read >>
The disciples were gathered together, hearing what had happened on the road to Emmaus, when Jesus appeared among them. Rob Marsh SJ finds himself in that group as he imagines the scene: ‘I thought by then I’d begun to believe. But seeing him in the flesh – wounds and all – I realised how little I had.’ Read >>
