Kirk Reflections 23rd April 2023.

Rev. Erick du Toit brings today's reflection from Kirkliston Parish Church, Scotland

PILGRIMAGE TO EMMAUS

When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”  Luke 24: 30-32

Ian Bradley writes in his book the Fife Pilgrimage Way:

“And now at the end of your pilgrimage, you pause and then turn round to return, back home or back to work with all its familiar routines and frustration and preoccupations. Pilgrimage is about setting out, only to come back again. As in life, we depart only to return. Our lives involve a series of journey out and back until we make our final pilgrimage into the unknown regions that lies beyond death. Maybe even after death our pilgrimages and our journeys continue and we are still on the Way and just beginning to set out again. Travel well and remember as Jerome said, ‘solvitar ambulondo’ – it can be solved by walking.”

Today, Erick unpacks the story of an encounter with the risen Christ on the Road to Emmaus.