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Seeing with new eyes – 3rd Sunday of Easter 2023
Luke is a highly accomplished storyteller.
Within today’s tale of the road to Emmaus he weaves strands of the past, the experiences of the disciples at the time, and the new understandings that later occurred to the Christian community, of which he was a part, almost a generation later. And so, in our own turn we seek, not only to recover some of the wisdom he sought to pass on, but also to discover new insights and intuitions for our own time and circumstances. For meaning and purpose in scripture are always unfolding, changing, adapting – that is why it is a living witness rather than text enshrined and confined.
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