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...marvel of his experience . . . fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded but ever present," Muggeridge vainly invokes Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Blake and Bunyan, St. Augustine and Simone Weil. We respect but may not share his feeling that Christ himself once was with him and the BBC television crew on the road to Emmaus. His epigraph from George Herbert perhaps speaks most adequately for him: "O that Thou shouldst give dust a tongue to crie to Thee...
...would also argue that there is nothing obsolete about the basic necessity for worship and prayer. "Liturgy must be an expression of something that is happening in the community," says the Rev. David Kirk, a Melchite Catholic priest who is founder of a unique interfaith center in Manhattan called Emmaus House. "Without worship, the community is a piece of rubbish." On the other hand, there is little doubt that the churches are in desperate need of new, this-worldly liturgies that reflect present needs rather than past glories...
...food are close company in the Old Testament and the New-from that first bite in Eden, through the Passover meal and the manna from Heaven, to the feeding of the multitudes and the Last Supper. The resurrected Christ was specifically recognized by the breaking of bread at Emmaus (Luke 24:30, 35), by eating a piece of broiled fish in Jerusalem (Luke 24:42), and by cooking breakfast for Peter and his friends (John 21:9-12). Such scriptural sources and sauces have been tapped for a brand-new manual of Christian cookery, The Bible Cookbook (Bethany Press...
Less than a year later, there were close to a dozen trucks and a community of the poor, called Emmaus,* working together to collect and process the junk that keeps them alive. Today, three years later, the community has mushroomed to three villages, where no families and 200 single men live in wheelless freight cars, old buses and corrugated metal shanties...
...blind obedience will lay down their lives to defend Him. Dostoevsky presents a symbol of Christ as the silent Visitant whose burning love will take nothing less than inwardly free men as his companions . . . Is it to be the Jesus of the Nazareth workshop, the Christ of Emmaus, the Jesus of Bethany with his beloved friends, or the Christ on the cross, a bleeding and suffering Redeemer? Or is it to be all of these at once...