"And they recognized Him in the breaking of the bread."
Christians recognize the Lord in their midst through bread broken and shared - through the Eucharist. In the first three centuries of the Church, Eucharist was celebrated weekly in one of the Christian homes of the community. In my ministry we continue that tradition.
I celebrate the Eucharist regularly in my home, and invite anyone who is seeking to encounter Christ in the Eucharist to come and be welcome. It does not matter that you are divorced and remarried, it doesn't matter that you may have a child out of wedlock, or that you're gay, All that matters is that you are genuinely seeking to make the Lord and his Gospel a greater part of your life. Other than that, you can come as you are.
And if you feel comfortable - stay and let us be your faith community.
The Community of Grace, a small faith community in the Catholic tradition gathers each Sunday morning at 10:00 AM for mass and fellowship at The Chapel in Croton Falls (609 Route 22, Croton Falls, NY). You are invited to join us!
The Story of Emmaus, as St. Luke Tells it (Luke 24: 13 - 35)
Now that very day two of them were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. He asked them, "What are you discussing as you walk along?" They stopped, looking downcast.
One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place there in these days?" And he replied to them, "What sort of things?" They said to him, "The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him. But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this took place. Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; they came back and reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was alive. Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described, but him they did not see."
And he said to them, "Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer 8 these things and enter into his glory?" Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures. As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. But they urged him, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over." So he went in to stay with them.
And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, "Were not our hearts burning (within us) while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?