Sunday Evangelium - Totus2us

Fr Andrew: "In today's Gospel two disciples spend some hours speaking with Jesus but they only recognise him when he breaks the blessed bread at table and hands it to them. In that moment of recognition, Jesus is obviously underlining the link between the eucharist and his real presence, by which he will be recognised subsequently in the sacrifice of the Mass. This encounter raises the question however of why, Jesus chooses to reveal the truth of his resurrection, gradually and at intervals to various different groups. St Bede the Venerable, the Father of English history, argued that the miracle was so great that human souls could not take it in all at once but had to be led to belief gently. In today's homily I argue that the sequence of Jesus's resurrection appearances follows a well-ordered narrative. Following a reconstruction of events first proposed by St Augustine, I further propose that this narrative is that of the Beatitudes by which a soul is transformed and becomes ready for heaven." Music by Edwi