Blog:Road to Emmaus -- God's Plan of Salvation revealed

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An encounter of

Road to Emmaus typology:

• walking away from Jerusalem
  • walking away not towards Jesus and the Church

• blindness / light v. dark
  • could not see Jesus

• hardness of heart / stiff neck
  • belief based on literal knowledge of the scriptures without fuller understanding (see Gifts of the Holy Spirit)
  • thought Jesus was a just a man (prophet...)

he says here and to the Apostles what they didn't understand was that the Messiah must suffer!

• Adam and Eve v. Emmaus
• both married couples
• A/E ate of the tree of Knowledge
  • opened them to sin
  • hid themselves in the trees of the garden
• Emmaus:
  • ate of the fruit of the Cross = Tree of Life, which was always open to Adam and Eve in the Garden, but closed after their exile

• breaking the bread
  • Jesus leaves as soon as they eat the bread
    • = they have communed with him, as in mass
  • they returned to Jerusalem immediately (in the Church)

Road to Emmaus as the Mass

• Entrance Rite
• Liturgy of the Word
• Liturgy of the Eucharist