When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight. They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?” That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together. They were saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!” Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.
On the road the Risen Christ
broke open the scriptures
and made the hearts of the disciples
burn within
At table the Risen Christ
broke and blessed bread
and propelled the feet of the disciples
to go and feed others
The word
Always convicting
The bread of life
Always compelling
Until it’s not
When our hunger cannot be fed
and our thirst cannot be quenched
When we cannot
taste and see
that the Lord is good
how then shall we be nourished?
How then will we be sent?
In our pandemic fasting
what is it
that causes us to recognise
the Risen Christ
in the midst of all our questions
making our hearts burn
and in the ordinary things
making himself known
still sending us
still compelling us
as much as ever
to believe in Resurrection
and to share hope
and joy
with others?
May our sacramental hunger
sharpen our senses
to all the other ways
that the Risen Christ is present
and amplify our awareness
of how we might serve
and be served
in the life of the world
where hunger is real
and where we are called
beyond our altars
to know Christ
in the brokenness
of the world.
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