We are Each Other’s Bread and Wine
no. 10

by Doug Wiebe
L’Arche  Community, Lethbridge, Alberta
sermon to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Lethbridge (abridged)

Luke 24:13-35

 

Two depressed men walked along the road to Emmaus on the first Easter Sunday.  They were not members of Jesus’ 12 disciples, but part of the larger group of men and women who believed Jesus was the long-awaited and hoped for Messiah.  But their hopes and dreams had died with Jesus’ crucifixion two days earlier.  They were suffering from a crisis of meaning in their lives, and the vibrant, life-changing community they belonged to had evaporated overnight.

Their depression was so deep they did not even recognize Jesus when he began walking with them.  Neither did they recognize his voice when he began to teach them.  Something in their hearts was stirred as they listened, but the words they were hearing did not reconnect them to the joy, the meaning, or the community that had filled their lives just a few days earlier. Continue reading ““Who Are You Having Supper With?”” →