Message from Fr. Luis R. Largaespada V.F.

St. Hugh Catholic Parish

Were Not Our Hearts Burning Within Us...? (Lk 24:32).

The familiar story of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus is full of images that we can find in our daily lives. Like them, we can become sad and despondent due to different events in our daily lives. Like theirs, our hearts can be slow to understand. It is then that Jesus approaches and walks with us; but, again like them, many times we fail to recognize Him.

This story is an invitation to us. An invitation to open the Scriptures daily and to grow in familiarity with the story of salvation. To penetrate in the great mystery that “it was necessary that the Christ should suffer and so enter into his glory” (Lk 24:26).

An invitation to approach that Christ that is “made known to [us] in the breaking of the bread” (24:35) by receiving Him in the Eucharist.

When we do this, we will find that our hearts will burn, like the hearts of the two disciples, with love for the Lord and with the desire to spread the great news of His resurrection to all we meet.

This Sunday we congratulate all those who have taken part in the Emmaus retreats. May you continue to walk with the Lord and may your hearts burn with the desire to share with others the great things He has done for us. God bless you.

Fr. Luis R. Largaespada V.F.