My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence.

I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, and to seed for me.

Lord Jesus, truly present with us in the Blessed Sacrament,

we want to ask you to give us this burning heart for you,

and as an overflow of your love within us, we wanted to spill over into other hearts.

Help us derive our strength, our joy, from the bread and the word.

We'll go into that gospel passage a bit,

that those disciples experienced that love of that mysterious companion who had risen from the dead because to recognize the resurrected Christ,

it wasn't a question of only seeing him appear, but receiving a grace

to recognize him. It wasn't that after two days the apostles forgot what Jesus looked

like, or the holy women forgot what he looked like,

he would decide when to let them have that grace to recognize him in his resurrected form.

Yes, he will to stay mysterious, mysterious companion whom those disciples knew very well,

love were dedicated to him, but were sorely dejected, disappointed, very sorrowful, very sad.

And as they walked with him, they were transformed.

The gospel does not mention that they started to experience that transformation.

It was in dialogue, we were listening to the Lord.

One more time they were being corrected for their lack of faith,

lack of obedience.

Obedience comes from the word to hear in Latin anyway.

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