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WALK TO EMMAUS:. From Heart-Breaking to Heart-Burning. EMMAUS SONG. Come journey with us Walk with us Listen to our story Our hopes, our dreams, Our struggles, our joys, Our story of life We share with you as we journey, Jesus, our God.
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WALK TO EMMAUS: From Heart-Breaking to Heart-Burning
EMMAUS SONG Come journey with us Walk with us Listen to our story Our hopes, our dreams, Our struggles, our joys, Our story of life We share with you as we journey, Jesus, our God.
May our hearts be warmed and strengthened by your presence here In your holy word and bread of life in the love we share, May we go forth on our journey with you. Come journey with us… Talk with us Tell us of your story Open our minds to understand the mystery of your life with us Your risen life Jesus, our God.
May our hearts be warmed and strengthened by your presence here In your holy word and bread of life in the love we share May we go forth on our journey with you. Come journey with us… stay with us Make us one with you In the blessing of bread… the breaking of bread May we truly know your life in us Your love for us, Jesus, our God
May your hearts be warmed and strengthened by your presence here In your holy word and bread of life in the love we share… may we go forth May our hearts be warmed and strengthened by your presence here In your holy word and bread of life in the love we share, May we go forth on our journey with you. (Monica Brown)
Reasons for Returning to Emmaus • They failed to understand and believe in the Risen Lord. • They hoped that Jesus would be Christ—a political, social and religious messiah. • They failed in personal hopes… to be someone in the kingdom. • Jesus was a mystery to them when he was alive and he is even more mysterious when he is dead. • It was disheartening to see their master killed as a common criminal. They felt a sense of shame and disappointment.
Reasons for Returning to Emmaus • They failed to reach a consensus with other disciples what to do next. • They were foreseeing a religious persecution by the Jewish authorities, possibly a political upheaval. • Encountered disunity and poor leadership exhibited among the apostles. • They failed to cooperate, listen and be united with other disciples who were equally affected as they were.
Discipleship to Ministry • Our ministry begins with discipleship. There is no ministry without discipleship. Being a good disciples, that is, giving witness to the Lord is already a ministry, because we minister to people through example and we mentor people through our life of witness. Ministry is expression of our discipleship – our love for the Lord, our experience of the Lord, and our commitment to the Lord. Our personal experience of the Lord becomes a foundation of our ministry.
Discipleship begins or becomes authentic only when the disciple has a personal experience of the Master – Jesus Christ. No one can claim to be a Disciple if one does not have the personal knowledge of the person he or she is following or witnessing. Our personal relationship becomes the core of our discipleship.
The death and resurrection of Jesus was a concrete situation when the disciples were given an opportunity to prove their love for the Lord and their personal experience of the Lord. It is being with the Lord at a challenging moment. It is the test of their love for the Lord. Mary Magdalene becomes a model disciple because she stood with the Lord at a trying moment. And Mary becomes the queen of Apostles because she stood at the cross silently sharing the suffering of her son, and not forgetting several other challenges she shared with him right from the moment of conception.
During her life time Mary Magdalene experienced the Lord that made her to look for the “dead” Jesus in the tomb. She was the first one to make effort to look for Jesus. • During his ministry Jesus already recognized her great love, her great attachment to him and assured her of her remembrance until the end of time.
Jesus on his part made himself to known to his disciples in many ways. He too had a hard time to explain himself, make himself known to them and keep them following him. • He was not always successful in letting himself to known to them. • Or rather their perception of him was marred by their own struggles of faith.
The event of Journey to Emmaus is a wonderful experience of Jesus making himself to known to them as their Risen Lord and his lesson to them on discipleship is remarkable and he was able to commission them. This event becomes a model of Jesus’ Ministry.
HEART BREAKING EXPERIENCE OF MASTER’S DEATH • English letter D has several saddest words – disappointment, doubt, disillusionment, defeat, despair, distress, distrust, dejection, depression, desolation and death. All these words are contained in the conversation of Cleopas. He pours out his heart to a stranger who joined them on their journey. Their disappointments were only aggravated by dispirited and confused band of disciples who are still in the shock of Good Friday. If only they were strong in their discipleship they would not have been pushed to this situation.
Disappointing Death • The disciples were given a dose of glory on the Palm Sunday when Jesus revealed to the people of Jerusalem as the One who comes in the name of the Lord, as one anointed like David their king. But in few days time their hopes were shattered. Their dreams did not come true as they expected.
Despair of Disciples • Having their shattered they were scattered. The disciples became leaderless, shepherdless and pushed to a humiliating end. Now the reports that Christ’s tomb was empty did nothing to alter their thinking; it only confused them. “we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel”.
Despair of Disciples • Human hope is a fragile thing, when it fails hopelessness set in. It becomes a disease of body and soul which is hard to cure. Only cure could be someone has to love them, care for them, encourage them, and get them out of fear and desperation.
Despair of Disciples • They seem to say, “We don’t expect anything now, we once hoped and believed, we had it, this thing called hope, now it is gone.” These two disappointed disciples could share all their misery to anyone who lends a listening ear to them. Their despair was so deep that it hindered their familiarity with the Lord. Jesus had become irrelevant in their life... Jesus had become a past tense – They went on saying, He was... He was... Now their mind ‘down cast’.
Jesus Style of Ministry • Relational Ministry • Biblical Ministry • Vocational Ministry • Catechetical / Liturgical Ministry • Christ Experience • Discernment Experience • Peer Ministry and Community Experience
1. Relational Ministry • Meet them where they are • Take the first step • Listen to them • Creating interpersonal relationship
2. Biblical Ministry • Challenge them • Interpret their life events in the light of the Gospel • Allowing Word of God to animate our ministry and the Vocation Invitee
3. Vocational Ministry • Helping people to make mature and personal choice • Free to choose to continue
4. Catechetical Ministry • Helping people to meet Christ in Eucharist • Deepening of Faith • Liturgical Ministry • Building Eucharistic Spirituality
Experience of the Risen Christ • It is the Lord !
6. Personal Discernment Experience • We are merely servants of the Word • Task Accomplished • Sign of Trust
7. Peer Ministry and Community Ministry • Go forth! • Sharing of Faith Experience • We begin and culminate in our community
Jesus Style of Ministry • Relational Ministry • Biblical Ministry • Vocational Ministry • Catechetical / Liturgical Ministry • Christ Experience • Discernment Experience • Peer Ministry and Community Experience 1 2 4 3 Christ Experience Peer Ministry
