Imaginative Contemplation

The Road to Emmaus

Ignatius of Loyola · 1491–1556

Two disciples walk away from Jerusalem, heavy with grief, and a stranger joins them. Walk the road with them, and stay for the breaking of the bread.

St Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (composition of place, §47; colloquium, §54). Scripture: Luke 24:13–31, World English Bible.