Recently, the movie “The Shack” was released in theaters, based on William P. Young’s book by the same title. In one scene of the book the main character, Mack, encounters Jesus and asks him: “Does that mean that all roads lead to you?” Jesus responds: “Not all. Most roads don’t lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.” Today’s Gospel is
the all familiar story of the road to Emmaus. This season of Easter we are called to encounter the risen Christ on our own road of life. But as we saw from “The Shack”, that road is not the same for everyone. It is usually the roads of daily life on which we all find ourselves filled with doubts, suffering, disappointments, etc. However, it is there that the risen Christ encounters us and reveals to us the greatest of stories: that despite all those feelings we are ransomed through his blood and brought to the hope of our own future resurrection. After our journeying we come to sit at the table of the Eucharist and in the breaking of the bread recognize that Christ has accompanied us all along. It is at the Eucharist that he opens our minds to recognize in Scripture every moment that he has walked with humanity, especially those moments when we least realized it. And for this we continue to cry: Alleluia, Christ is risen! - Fr. David Muñoz, OMI