We sing a glorious Psalm every day during the season of the Glorious Resurrection: Alleluia! Alleluia, This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice in it and be glad” Alleluia. Every day is God’s gift, His creation, but none more than the Glorious day of the Resurrection, when He recreated the entire universe, giving life and health to what was dying. 
   Some days, it’s hard to believe that God made the day in which I am living, with all its frustrations. Some days, it's rather hard to trust that weakness has its purpose in God’s all-wise plan. The annual Season of the Glorious Resurrection. The 49 days (7×7) the week of weeks, leading the Pentecost the 50th day, certainly helps one to rejoice and be thankful in ea, “in it," and to believe that God knows what He is doing. Today is the day that God has made, for me and for all of us, and it is very good, in all its joys and sorrows. 
   The eight days of the Resurrection leading to the New Sunday have been given us to believe again, over an entire week, in the goodness of this day, the day we are in right now. 
   The Gospel for today is always resta con noi—“stay with us Lord, for evening draws on.” It is the Road to Emmaus, when Jesus joins two discouraged disciples on the very day the day the Lord has made of His Glorious Resurrection, on the way, and opens their minds through the scriptures, so that their hearts burn within them. We might walk away from Him, but he will not walk away from us. Jesus opens their minds to the Scriptures and their hearts begin to burn. “Did you not know that the Messiah had to suffer?” Here in a world gone wrong (a world disabled by original sin), there is no love without suffering.      “Stay with us,” they beg him, “for night is almost upon us.” He does stay with them for dinner, and as he takes the bread, blesses it, breaks it, and gives it to them. They suddenly recognize him, and he vanishes from their sight, but they no longer miss Him. They don’t need to see him with their eyes because they have the Sacred Eucharist, the Holy Bread that is his body, blood, soul, and divinity. They rush back to Jerusalem, to the Holy City, to begin their lifelong apostolate of spreading the faith. 
       The story of Emmaus is the story of the Divine Liturgy. In the first part of the Divine Liturgy (the Liturgy of the Word) Jesus opens our hearts through the Scriptures, and in the second part the Anaphora (the liturgy of the Eucharist) we recognize him in the breaking of the bread. Word and Sacrament. These are the twin engines that power our faith and hope of eternal life. These are the two gifts all of us, receive today. Never miss the Sunday Divine Liturgy, dear people. Never miss the day the Lord has made.