When Bishop Earl Boyea’s new apostolic initiative, “On the Road to Emmaus,” launched in the Diocese of Lansing on June 11, the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, there were already more than 20,000 ...

Judges 6:1-24 recounts the call of Gideon. The chapter opens by recounting a familiar story: God’s people have sinned and ...

Ever wonder why Jesus picked the disciples? They hardly seem like the cream of the crop. They spent a fair bit of Jesus’ ministry asking stupid questions and demonstrating petty jealousies. There were ...

The story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus is a favorite of mine. I love the image of pilgrims traveling together, struggling to understand tragedy and loss. I love that Jesus enters the story ...

This is Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s depiction of Jesus, second from right, having dinner with two of his disciples after his resurrection. Caravaggio lived from 1571-1610.

A depiction of the gospel scene of Emmaus. (Credit: Fraternita di Emmaus.) Listen As the universal Church continues to celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection through the Easter Season, Christians are ...

In the first sentence in tomorrow’s Gospel (Luke 24: 13 – 35) Luke tells the reader that two of Jesus’s disciples were on their way to Emmaus, and they were talking about all that had happened. For ...

In this episode, as we continue reflecting on stories of conversion, we’ll look at the resurrection appearance of Jesus to the disciples on the road to Emmaus, found only in the Gospel of Luke. In ...

Has it ever happened that you fell in with a stranger on a long journey and discovered love, encouragement and self-understanding? Is this what is called ‘serendipity’, the habit of discovering ...