Today as we continue to reflect on this Emmaus journey, we arrive in town. The disciples invite the stranger to spend the night with them. Jesus accepts this invitation and shares a meal with them. “When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them”. (Luke 24:30) It was at this point that their eyes were open and they recognised him for who he was - the Risen Christ. It was a moment of celebration and it coincided with the breaking of bread.

We continue today as Catholic people to celebrate in the sharing of a meal or the breaking of bread. It is here at this point that we are urged to be a people of action. We have made sense, gained access, celebrated and now we are called to respond. We are dismissed regularly from the Church and in this dismissal, we are called to be people of action to set out and proclaim. To go, to take the Christ we have just received through the Word and in Communion out to the rest of the world - to carry on the mission we, as Catholic people, are entrusted with. To make Jesus known and loved to others – just as the disciples did. “That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together". (Luke 24:33)

The scripture shows us that Jesus meets us where we are at, doesn’t leave us where he finds us and takes us to where we can’t go on our own. These challenging times call us, more than ever, to be people of faith and action.