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W
EDNESDAY
IN
THE
O
CTAVE OF
E
ASTER
Acts of the Apostles 3:1-10
Psalm 105:1-2,3-4,6-7,8-9
Luke 24:13-35
S
UMMARY
In the reading from Acts for today we see
Jesus’s followers begin to come to terms with
His death, allowing the Holy Spirit to continue
His ministry through them as they heal a crip-
pled man in the name of Christ. In the reading from Luke, two
followers of Jesus encounter Him on the road to Emmaus—but
do not recognize Him as Christ until He breaks bread with them.
R
EFLECTION
As two disciples talked on the road to Emmaus, the risen Je-
sus drew near and walked with them, “but their eyes were pre-
vented from recognizing Him.” Even after a day of travel to-
gether, during which Jesus “interpreted to them what referred to
Him in all the Scriptures,” they failed to know who He was. Their
eyes were opened and they recognized Him only when they all
sat at table, and He “took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and
gave it to them.”
Luke here evokes Christ’s actions at the Last Supper (22:19)
to tell us again that our eyes are most truly opened to the divin-
ity of Jesus at the moment of communion—a sacrament that per-
mits us not only to recognize, but to become one with Jesus
through the humble act of eating and drinking. Reaching down
to our most primitive level of being, He lifts us to union with the
divine.