PRIEST: The disciples at Emmaus recognise the Risen Lord in the breaking of Bread and rush to tell the Good News to the others in Jerusalem. And there He comes once again to meet us his People: to stretch out his wounded hands, to walk our path with his feet pierced with love. He asks us to nourish him, with the depth of our love and strength of our faith. He sends us as His witnesses! Let us allow his Word to draw us again to pray for mercy because as we resist our share in the Cross, so deprive our world of its share of Resurrection.
READER: For being so slow to believe
that love will turn our suffering into resurrection hope…
Lord have mercy…
For lacking courage in witnessing to the name of Jesus
and to the radical Gospel of our Risen Christ…
Christ have mercy…
Because His resurrection is our Reconciliation;
because His wounded-ness is our wholeness…
Lord have mercy…
PRIEST: May the God of all life embrace us with mercy;
may the Risen Lord touch us with forgiveness;
may the Spirit of Easter Joy transform us
into a living parable of reconciliation;
bringing us and our world to everlasting life…
AMEN!