The stranger on the road

After Luke 24:13-35 

They walked along the road,

talking of all that had passed,

when a stranger came along,

asking them of what they

talked. Amazed that anyone

wouldn’t have heard, they

told him of the arrest, 

the trial, the beatings,

the execution, the burial,

the body’s disappearance,

the report that the executed

man lived. Walking alongside

them, he listened, offering no

comment. He agreed to join

them at table and eat, and as

they sat, he broke bread, not

unlike the last time he’d

broken bread with them,

and suddenly they know. 

Their eyes opened,

and they knew.

 

Photograph by Perry C via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

Suffering and Solace: Edgar Allan Poe’s Catholic Imagination – LuElla D’Amico at Church Life Journal.

 

Goodnight Crow – poem by Megan Willome at Everyday Poems.

 

The Definitive Guide to Christian Denominations – Steven Wedgeworth at Logos.

 

The Ten Most Beautiful Symphonies – Stephen Klugewicz at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

I See the Hostages in My Children’s Faces – Nani Beraha at The Free Press.