Easter Monday

From Sermon I of the Resurrection, 1606, by Lancelot Andrewes

Rembrandt, The Supper at Emmaus

All the way did He preach to them, even till they came to Emmaus, and their hearts were hot within them, which was a good sign: but their eyes were not opened but ‘at the breaking of bread,’ and then they were. That is the best and surest sense we know, and therefore most to be accounted of. There we taste, and there we see; ‘taste and see how gracious the Lord is.’ There we are made to ‘drink of the Spirit,’ there our ‘hearts are strengthened and stablished with grace.’ There is the Blood which shall ‘purge our consciences from dead works,’ whereby we may ‘die to sin.’ There the Bread of God, which shall endue our souls with much strength; yea, multiply strength in them to live unto God; yea, multiply strength in them to live unto God; yea, to live to Him continually; for he that ‘eateth His flesh and drinketh His blood, dwelleth in Christ, and Christ in him;" not inneth, or sojourneth for a time, but dwelleth continually. And, never can we more truly, or properly say in Christo Jesu Domino nostro, as when we come new from that holy action, for then He is in us, and we in Him indeed.