The life of the risen Christ takes root in us slowly. In our readings today we hear how it impacted those who first heard it. In Acts, 2:14a, 36-41, there is sorrow and regret. Peter explains that what

is required is the desire to change, to repent, to turn around and be prepared to start again. Yet there is something that must come before this: In Luke 24:13-35, the disciples on the road to Emmaus, must first voice their disappointment, their crushed hopes “we had hoped”, they say “that he was the one to redeem Israel”. It only when they can let go of their own hopes that they are ready to receive the altogether larger, all encompassing hope that Jesus offers them, not just for their own people, but for all God’s children.

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