Our Gospel is the famous story of the road to Emmaus. Two of Jesus’ followers are returning home after the tumultuous events of Holy Week only to encounter the Risen Lord Himself. We’ll look to an early Church historian to uncover the identity of the two disciples. Comparing our story to the Feeding of the Five Thousand we’ll note several parallels between the two and we’ll also spend some time exploring the objectively vulnerable nature of faith in Christ. Lastly, we’ll compare the Emmaus encounter with Adam and Eve’s sin in Genesis 3 and we’ll note key differences between the outcomes of the two stories.

In this episode discover:

- Who Eusebius, an early Church historian, identifies as the two disciples in our narrative (spoiler: they may have been relatives of Jesus)

- A detail in our Gospel that would have fulfilled the Jewish requirement for credibility of legal witnesses

- An interesting observation one Biblical scholar makes about Luke’s chronology and how it relates to the keeping of our modern-day liturgical calendar

- Whether Jesus purposely prevented the disciples from recognizing Him or if something else was at play

- How Josephus, a first century Jewish historian, describes Jesus and the similarities that description has with Cleopas’

- How the story of the road to Emmaus mirrors the twofold pattern of every Mass