EASTER MONDAY – Count-from-Ash-Wednesday-DAY-48.
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💎 *EASTERTIDE DEVOTION*💎
💙*Day 48 | Christ’s Good News Mission*
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💔 *_Walking with Jesus Toward the Cross._* 💔
*DAY 48 — EASTER MONDAY*
Second Day of Bright Week — The Octave of Easter
🌸 *THE RESURRECTION LIFE: WALKING IN NEWNESS*
*Theme:* Living the Resurrection — Emmaus, Recognition, and the Ongoing Presence of the Risen Christ.
📖 *Scripture Reading*
Luke 24:13–35 — The Road to Emmaus (NKJV).
*_“Now behold, two of them were travelling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him… And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself… Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. And they said to one another, ‘Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?'”_*
Acts 10:40–41 (NKJV)
*_“Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly, not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.”_*
✍️ *Message*
Easter Monday brings us one of the most tender, most human, and most quietly magnificent stories in all of the Gospels — the Road to Emmaus. Two disciples, hearts shattered and hopes extinguished, are walking away from Jerusalem on the afternoon of the Resurrection. They have heard the women’s report of the empty tomb. They have heard the angels’ proclamation. And yet they are walking in the wrong direction — away from the community, away from the other disciples, their faces downcast, their conversation heavy with grief and confusion.
And Jesus joins them on the road.
He does not announce Himself with trumpets and glory. He does not overwhelm them with a theophany that removes all doubt. He simply — walks with them. He asks them what they are discussing. He listens to their grief. He enters their confusion with patient, unhurried, extraordinary tenderness. And then, *_“beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.”_* He opens the Word of God on the road — and something begins to happen deep inside them. Their hearts begin to burn.
It is only at the supper table, when He takes the bread, blesses it, breaks it, and gives it to them, that their eyes are opened and they recognise Him. And in the very moment of recognition, He vanishes. He does not need to remain physically present — because now they understand. The Word of God has opened their eyes. The breaking of bread has revealed His presence. They do not need to see Him with physical eyes anymore; they know Him.
Easter Monday tells us something of immeasurable practical importance for the life that follows Easter: the Risen Christ is present in ordinary journeys. He walks with us on the roads we travel every day — the road of work, of family, of disappointment, of recovery, of quiet faithfulness in unspectacular circumstances. He is there in the opening of Scripture. He is there in the breaking of bread. He is there in the gentle burning of the heart that says, *_“Something holy is happening here.”_*
The two disciples, whose faces were downcast when they left Jerusalem, return that same evening — seven miles back, in the dark, at full speed — to tell the others what they had experienced. The Resurrection life is not a private possession; it is a message to be carried. Every encounter with the Risen Christ propels us back toward community, back toward witness, back toward the urgent and joyful proclamation: *_“The Lord is risen indeed!”_*
This is the life we are now called to live — not merely the memory of an empty tomb, but the daily, ongoing, Emmaus-road experience of a Christ who walks beside us, opens the Scriptures to us, breaks bread with us, and sends us out burning with holy purpose.
Go. Walk. Recognise Him. And tell everyone you meet.
🙏 *Liturgical Prayer*
O Risen Lord Jesus, Companion of the Emmaus road,
As this first Easter Monday dawns over a world still ringing with the proclamation of Your resurrection, I ask for one thing above all else: Walk with me. Not only in the high and holy moments of liturgical celebration, but on every ordinary road of every ordinary day that stretches before me. Walk with me in my confusion, as You walked with those two disciples who had not yet understood. Walk with me in my grief, as You drew alongside them in their heartbreak. Walk with me in my questions, as You received theirs without reproach.
Open the Scriptures to me as You opened them on that road to Emmaus. Let Your Word become a living fire within me — not a text to be academically observed, but a voice to be personally encountered. When I read, let me find You there. When I hear Your Word proclaimed, let my heart burn with recognition of Your presence. Let the Scriptures be, for me, what they were for those two travellers — the place where the Risen Christ makes Himself known and transforms sorrow into joy, confusion into clarity, and despair into burning, irresistible purpose.
Meet me at the table, Lord. In the breaking of bread — whether in the Eucharist of the Church or in the ordinary meals of daily life — open my eyes to see You present. Teach me to sanctify the ordinary. Let every meal be a reminder of that Emmaus supper. Let every breaking of bread carry the echo of Your hands — those nail-scarred, glorified, bread-breaking hands that reveal who You are to all who have eyes to see.
And then, Lord — send me back. Just as those two disciples could not keep the Emmaus encounter to themselves, do not let me hoard what You have given me. Send me back to my community, my church, my family, my neighbours — burning with the news that You are alive, You are present, You are walking the roads of this world, and You can be recognised by all who are willing to invite You in.
This Holy Week has taken me from the Temple courts to the Upper Room, from Gethsemane to Calvary, from the sealed tomb to the open grave. And now — Easter Monday — You send me forward into the rest of my life as a resurrection witness. I go, Lord. I go burning. I go proclaiming.
*The Lord is risen indeed!*
In Christ Jesus’ glorious, living, and everlasting Name,
*Alleluia! Amen.* 🙏✨🌅
🕯️ *Liturgical Note — Easter Monday Observances*
*Bright Monday (Orthodox):*
The first day of Bright Week — the entire week following Easter is celebrated as a single extended feast day, with the Paschal greeting exchanged at every service and encounter.
*Easter Monday Mass:*
Many Western traditions celebrate a principal Eucharist on Easter Monday, continuing the proclamation of the Resurrection.
*The Emmaus Walk (Various traditions):*
Some communities organise an outdoor walk or pilgrimage on Easter Monday, re-enacting the Emmaus road journey in prayerful reflection.
*Continued Feasting:*
The Easter fast is fully broken; families and communities gather for continued celebration, feasting, and fellowship.
*Paschal Greeting Continues:*
*_“Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!”_* is exchanged throughout Bright Week and the forty days of Eastertide.
*The Fifty Days of Easter:* Easter Monday begins the great fifty-day season of Eastertide, which continues in uninterrupted resurrection joy until Pentecost Sunday.
The pilgrimage is complete — from Ash Wednesday through Lent, through the solemnity of Holy Week, through the darkness of Good Friday, through the waiting of Holy Saturday, to the blazing glory of Easter morning and the tender Emmaus encounter of Easter Monday. The journey does not end here — it begins here, in the light of the empty tomb, with the Risen Christ walking beside us on every road ahead.
Go in the peace and joy of the Risen Christ.
He is risen — He is risen indeed!
*Alleluia!*
“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.”
— 2 Corinthians 2:14 (NKJV).
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