Lent, Day Fifty, Easter Wednesday

Lent, Day Fifty, Easter Wednesday
To follow Christ means to relate to each other with the mind of Christ; that is, to relate to each other as Christ did to us--in servant-hood and humility. Discipleship is walking together on the same path. While still living wholly in this world, we have discovered each other as fellow travelers on the same path and have formed a new community... We have become a new people with a new mind, a new way of seeing and hearing and a new hope because of our common fellowship with Christ. Compassion, then, can never be separated from community. Compassion always reveals itself in community, in a new way of being together.

Henri J.M. Nouwen, Donald P MacNeil, and Douglas A. Morrison
Compassion: A Reflection of the Christian Life, pg 102

Scripture:
¹³ Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles^[a] from Jerusalem. ¹⁴ They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. ¹⁵ As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; ¹⁶ but they were kept from recognizing him.
²⁸ As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. ²⁹ But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.
³⁰ When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. ³¹ Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. ³² They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
³³ They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together

Luke 24:13-16, 28-33

PRAYER
Great God of the entire human family, give me the ability to recognize Jesus in all whom I meet. Help me to give up my self-centered blindness and open my eyes so that I can acknowledge that we all are one in you. Amen.

EASTER ACTION
Think back and meditate on when you may have "passed by" our Lord as did the disciples on the road to Emmaus.