The story of the Risen Jesus appearing to his disciples on the Road to Emaeus highlights for us the need to allow the resurrected Lord to break into our daily living, reflects Christian Brother Julian McDonald. Perhaps some of the best places for us to understand ourselves and our role in the world and, indeed, to experience resurrection, are soup kitchen tables, budget cafe and family kitchen tables, where the people with whom we engage will mirror to us new insights and resurrection.

I believe that Jesus breathed God’s Spirit into the disciples, Thomas included, in that upper room where they had locked themselves away from real life, writes Christian Brother Julian McDonald. I believe that same Spirit has been breathed into each of us. We know that we get glimpses of that Spirit at work in the love, generosity, compassion and forgiveness of people we encounter and, indeed in our acts of care and compassion towards others. The crucified and risen Jesus lives again in each of us. Maybe we have to get to know him a little better by first touching the scars we carry Then, we might be able to go out and start practicing resurrection.

We belong to a Church that will forever be in process. The process is not about changing the foundations on which it has been built. - the Good News of Jesus Christ and his life, death and resurrection. But it is about living that Good News in ways that will make an impact for good in a world that is also in the process of unprecedented change, writes Christian Brother Julian McDonald.

Whatever the thoughts and feelings Simon experienced, he stands in stark contrast to Jesus, who day in and day out selflessly walks with us as we carry the crosses that come our way - crosses of our own making and crosses given to us by others, reflects Br Julian McDonald. Sometimes we let those crosses feed our bitterness, at other times we allow them to transform us, to contribute to our growth and development as human beings, as followers of Christ.

All of us Christians, worthy of the name, have a responsibility to reflect, in our words and actions to one another and to everyone we encounter, something of the person and the Gospel of Jesus, writes Christian Brother Julian McDonald.