the Emmaus road story is also, preeminently, a model of prayer. Somehow these few verses distill more insight into how God speaks, and how we are to hear him speak, than any other passage, anywhere else in the Gospels. In fewer than twenty verses, the Lord communicates in at least five different ways: conversationally “as they talked and discussed these things with each other”; exegetically when he explained “all the Scriptures concerning himself”; sacra-mentally when he “took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them”; prophetically when “their eyes were opened”; and inwardly
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