A Change of Heart | Part Three

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Continuing our Easter series, To and From Emmaus: In this podcast, Fr. Peter Armenio reflects on the desire for conversion that Christ inspires within the disciples and how we can imitate this act of repentance and change of heart in our daily lives. Amid their journey to Emmaus, Christ prompts a conversation with the disciples and identifies the interior pain and restlessness they experience as a result of what they believe to be an absence of Christ. It is through this conversation that Chr...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:04.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here,
0:11.0	that you see me, that you hear me.
0:15.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:18.0	I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:27.1	My Immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my Father and Lord,
0:32.1	my guardian angel, intercede for me.
0:35.5	We continue our walk with Jesus to Emmaus, going to Emmaus as we've
0:43.3	contemplated, signifies the lack of hope, a sadness, a dissolutionment. And as is the case with virtually every gospel character
0:59.0	that Jesus draws to himself that a change of heart begins with an encounter with Jesus.
1:11.6	It doesn't begin with an immediate exhortation to examine one's conscience, or a reprimand as a consequence of reading into someone's heart, let alone a guilt trip.
1:34.5	Jesus doesn't begin by moralizing.
1:39.9	Every encounter is kind of foxy.
1:47.8	Seems almost accidental.
1:49.5	Jesus runs into somebody.
1:54.5	That encounter generates a conversation.
2:06.9	Conversation segues into a deep act of repentance, either explicitly narrated or implicitly stated.
2:21.1	And as we were contemplating in this particular gospel, this very special Easter season gospel, that this walk to and from Amas back to Jerusalem is an allegory of discipleship, of Christian encounter with Christ,
2:33.3	repentance, conversation with him, change of heart, and an energetic
2:43.2	desire or zeal to announce the resurrection to others.
3:01.6	In this particular time of prayer, the theme is on change of heart. Repentance.
3:03.6	We continue reading this narrative. While they were talking and discussing
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