At Mass last Father Tim, preached with his customary vigour, trust me,no one snoozes at the back when he is on the Altar! He is a knowledgeable priest who customarily takes Bible Classes and last night he preached on the gospel of the day Easter Sunday 3 ,The road to Emmaus, and he said at one point that current scholarship is of the idea that as well as Cleophas the second un-named follower of Jesus was not some unknown male as has always been portrayed in art ,but Mary the wife of Cleophas, one of the women who stood at the cross and went to the empty tomb! You may be familiar with this but I had never heard it before, as Father explained all the implications of this, Cleophas and Mary,his wife as a new Adam and Eve partaking not of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil,but of the new feast of Holy Mass served by the Great High Priest and knowing at that moment ,but not as Adam and Eve saw their sin and nakedness, they saw Salvation.What a marvelous story and what great trut