From Catholic Charities USA ... "Easter Reflection" for April 26

Third Sunday of Easter

Readings of the Day

The story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus is a reprise and summary of the journey we take each year during Holy Week culminating in the Easter Triduum. The joyful enthusiasm of crowds greeting Jesus on Passion Sunday gives way a few days later on Holy Thursday, when Jesus invites those closest to him to share a final meal together. In the intimacy of that last supper, he offers a hint of the tragic events about to unfold, and a way of interpreting his passion and death as an act of love: “This is my body given up for you, my blood poured out for you.” The brutality and humiliation of his death left his followers stunned, numb, devastated ...

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