'Stay with us . . .' Sunday Reflections, 3rd Sunday of Easter Year A

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Duccio di Buoninsegna, 1308-11,
 Museo del Opera del Duomo, Siena [Web gallery of Art]
Readings (New American Bible: Philippines, USA)                                  
Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England,
Wales, India
 [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland,
South Africa)
Gospel Luke 24:13-35 (New Revised Standard Version, 
Catholic Edition, Canada) 

Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven milesfrom Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them,  but their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What are you discussing with each other while you walk along?” 
continue gospel here.

 From 1968 until 1971 I studied music at Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, not too far north of New York City. At the time it was run by the Religious of the Sacred Heart. In 1968 the college dropped 'of the Sacred Heart' from its name and for many years now has not been a Catholic institution, though that's another story.
One morning during Lent in 1969 I was walking across campus to class - I was a campus chaplain for my first two years there and lived in the chaplains' house - and met a student name Betty coming from one of her classes. We were in some classes together. Just to make small talk I asked her what she was planning to do during the Easter vacation. She told me that she and three or four other students were planning to go to a parish in rural Kentucky to help with various activities there. As I had no commitments for Easter Week I asked her if I could come along.  Full post here.

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