Long Road Away From What Was
May 19, 2025
Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
–Luke 24:1
Oh, how foolish you are! And how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer all these things and then enter into his glory?
–Luke 24:25–26
Then they said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”
–Luke 24:32
For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to someone untimely born, he appeared also to me.
—1 Corinthians 15:3–8
Emmaus is about seven miles from Jerusalem and a world away from what was. Once we recognize the risen Christ present in Scripture and Sacrament we have entered a new world.