Episode Transcript
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Have you ever walked with Jesus
and not realised it?
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This is what happened to the
disciples on the Emmaus road,
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they're walking along thinking
they're with a stranger,
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but in fact, it's the one they had followed
for the previous 3 years.
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There are some really interesting things
that happen on the road to Emmaus,
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that we can learn from.
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And the first is this, God often comes to us
in a way that we don't expect.
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When we square God off, put Him in a box
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and say that this is the little domain
that God is allowed to move in,
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we miss out when God is doing
something here and here.
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When God is doing something we don't expect,
we can fail to recognize it.
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So, are we open to the movement of God,
even when God comes in a way we didn't expect.
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The second thing that happens
for the disciples
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is they're with this stranger,
it's getting to the end of the day,
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and they invite the stranger in.
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Now, if they hadn't had invited
that stranger in,
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they may not ever have realized
that it was Jesus.
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It was only because Jesus stayed for the meal
that His identity was revealed.
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How often do we invite that
stranger into our lives?
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Do we give people we don't know
and we don't expect,
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place in our space, at our meals,
at the table?
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The third thing of course happens is that Jesus
is revealed at the breaking of bread.
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And this is profound for us in the Mass
when the priest consecrates
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and he holds up this bread and the wine
and says, "This is my body given for you."
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Do you and I, do we recognise Jesus
in the bread?
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And finally, when the disciples are
reflecting on this journey,
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they say, "Didn't our hearts burn
within us as we talked to Jesus?"
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Has your heart ever burnt with the presence of God?
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You've had that feeling of something
supernatural is going on.
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My daughter got confirmed just this week.
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And I said, "How did you experience God in that?"
And she said, "You know when-"
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it was Father Michael placed his hands
on her head and prayed for the Holy Spirit,
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she felt this sense of something going on for her.
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My son talked about that experience
in his first reconciliation.
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Are we open and attentive to the Spirit of God,
the presence of God, burning in our hearts?
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If you've never experienced that,
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invite God to come and move in your life
in a way you never expected,
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that His Spirit might burn in your heart.
