Easter Monday Feast
The day after Easter, kept for the road to Emmaus. Two walk away from Jerusalem with a stranger who explains the scriptures, and recognise him only when he breaks the bread - Luke 24:32, our heart burning within us.
When it falls
The verses for the day
- And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?Luke 24:32
- Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, {even} unto the end of the world. Amen.Matthew 28:20
The moment in the Bible
The road to EmmausLuke 24:31Read the passage → The place
A village about sixty stadia from Jerusalem where two disciples walked on the evening of the resurrection. A stranger joined them and opened the Scriptures along the road; they knew him only when he broke the bread, and he vanished. Several sites claim the name; this marker follows the distance Luke gives.
Jerusalem is the holiest city in Judaism and Christianity, central to the biblical narrative. King David captured it and made it his capital, and his son Solomon built the First Temple there. It was the site of Jesus' crucifixion, resurrection, and the birth of the Christian church at Pentecost. The city has been destroyed and rebuilt multiple times throughout history.
