Lectio Divina: For the Third Week in Easter

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS ACCORDING TO LUKE (FIRST READER ONLY)

TWO DISCIPLES WERE WALKING TO A VILLAGE CALLED EMMAUS/

THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT HAD HAPPENED/

JESUS CAME NEAR AND WALKED WITH THEM/

THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM./

THEY CAME TO THE VILLAGE AND JESUS WALKED AHEAD AS IF HE WERE GOING ON./

THEY URGED HIM, "STAY WITH US BECAUSE IT IS ALMOST EVENING;THE DAY IS NEARLY OVER./

WHEN HE WAS AT TABLE WITH THEM, HE TOOK BREAD, BLESSED AND BROKE IT, AND GAVE IT TO THEM./

THEN THEIR EYES WERE OPENED/

THEY RECOGNIZED JESUS,/

AND HE VANISHED FROM THEIR SIGHT./

THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM SAYING, "THE LORD HAS RISEN INDEED!"