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Living Our Faith: Easter

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Being witnesses to the good news of Easter means being able and willing simply to share a bit of our story, to give
This is an American 18th-century painting entitled “Christ on the Road to Emmaus.” On the first Easter Sunday two of Jesus’s disciples, disillusioned by the events of the past three days, set out from Jerusalem for Emmaus, several miles away. En route they meet a stranger who appears totally unaware of what has transpired in Jerusalem. (CNS photo/courtesy National Gallery of Art)

testimony from our experience.
For those Catholics who were received into the church last Easter, the ensuing months brought opportunities to deepen their bourgeoning faith and live out their Christian call to witness.
The encounter with the risen Lord on the road to Emmaus prepares the two disciples to be Jesus’ witnesses to the ends of the earth.