From the Tabernacle Jesus seems to say, “Stay with Me for it is towards evening and the day is now far spent”. This should urge me to come to visit Him often.
If my resurrection is a real one and is to produce fruit, it must be external, so that all may see I am not the same man, that my life is changed in Christ.
COMMENT: Fr Doyle wrote these notes while contemplating the scene in which the disciples encounter Jesus on the road to Emmaus during the 4th week of the Spiritual Exercises in 1907. He poses a question that we may fruitfully ask ourselves – can people perceive that my life has been changed in Christ? Or, as St Josemaria Escriva once put it:
How I wish your bearing and conversation were such that, on seeing or hearing you, people would say: This man reads the life of Jesus Christ.
Christ Himself will make saints of us, no matter our weaknesses, sins, apparent failures, etc. We can be one of God’s miracles, if we cooperate with Him and trust that He can do it, and will do it with my faithful love for Him, for others, and my surrender every moment to His plan. Father Doyle, lead us on God’s path even amidst great challenges; you on the battlefield with death and injury all around reached the heights of charity and selflessness- please guide us along that way in order that we may always keep the Lord first, and our neighbor second, and so become that miracle God plans for us.