Gospel of Easter Wednesday and . . .

...more on mystagogy. The church recovered that ministry of helping baptized people enter the Resurrection mystery. The vitality of the early church hummed with the presence of the risen Christ. From the late 1960s the Catholic Church drank anew from that vitality. Jesuit “James Crampsey explores some passages in the Synoptic Gospels against the horizon of Mystagogy.”

He begins with the Easter Wednesday gospel: two disciples encounter the Risen One while walking. The first hearers were at home with features of the gospel we might find strange. They were like us, too: their experience of the Risen One and their convictions about human living and dying were not in synch. Without leaving home the pandemic has put us on an unexpected, unwanted road. How welcome is the Risen One in 2020?

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Wiki-image The Pilgrims of Emmaus on the Road by “James Tissot | PD-US"