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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
As I sat down here this morning and began to read, my heart began to burn within me as it always does when I hear the Emmaus reading, and found myself singing “Are not our hearts burning within us? Are not our lives shared as one bread? Here in our hands, here in this place. Jesus our hope, life from the dead.”
I am a member of a Reflection Ministry, where I share my reflections on the scriptures on a given Sunday at Mass, a form of evangelization, where we try to break open the Word, “break the bread of the Word” and then chew and savour it with our community. What I find myself doing here every morning, but without referring to scholars and homilists and without the burden, the responsibility that comes when we are evangelizing and preaching.
This morning as I listen to Eugene speak and to Frank who often breaks open what Eugene is saying by speaking in a way that is somehow more real and more relevant in these times, my being sings as I share where God is leading me for there is a certain joy that accompanies it. This morning the words that come to me are from Galatians 2: “I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no loner I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has love me and given himself up for me.” This too I had to look up because the thought that came to me was that it was no longer I but Christ in me.
That is what the disciples on the road discovered as they walked with the Risen Christ. That is what burned within them as they turned back to find their brothers and share with them their experience of the Risen Lord.
How will Christ come alive in me today? How will I share that with the others I meet today, so that if is not just meaningless piety, but rather it becomes the bread of life?