As soon as the Sabbath was over, and the sun rose, heralding a new day, two disciples decided to leave their gathering from the Upper Room, to go to Emmaus, a village, eleven miles from Jerusalem. As their journey unfolds, they will show perfectly what was the conclusion the apostles, and the rest of the disciples, arrived at, for these two disciples said to Jesus, who had joined them, as they walked together, completely unaware that they were talking to Jesus, risen from the dead! Because obviously they concluded with the rest of the disciples, that Jesus died and that was the end! So, they replied, in answer to His question; for He asked them what they were so intensely talking about. ‘About Jesus of Nazareth, they replied: He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and al... read more

Following the ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ a completely new kind of life was opening for all His disciples. A new kind of relationship with Him, and yet not with Him as before, for He left them and returned home to Heaven. They will not see Him, nor will they hear Him anymore, it was that final, it certainly did not take a day or two to get used to it, for it will never be the same. So, living all these happenings, and without Jesus, the disciples left the Mount of Olives and returned to the upper room, the same room in which they spent few hours with the Lord, commemorating the Passover, as written in the Gospel of John chapters thirteen to seventeen. 

After the prayer that Jessus prayed, written in full by the apostle John in chapter seventeen of his Gospel... read more