September 25 Cleophas 1st c.

Thommy and John

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Cleophas. on the Road to Emmaus.... metaphor. alagory. simile sometimes too. i used it as the title for the column i wrote for the tennessee register [wrote until i upset the publisher, qua bishop, when i upset the good sisters st overbrook.... it was a prize winning column for the catholic paper. Tony Spence, the editor who invited me to write the column after he'd published several of my letters, was a bit surprized by the banning. .... Tony is now an editor with the NCR and a member of the pontifcial commission advising about catholic communications/media.] one never knows who you will meet along the road to Eammaus. walk with God wherever you go - and, of course, your guardian angel, and your patron saints... a very crowded walk....

Cleophas was one of the two disciples whom Jesus met on the road to Emmaus. not just any walker, a disciple. he is the father of Mary, one of the women with Jesus' mother at the foot of the cross. he is also St Joseph's brother and the father of St James the Lesser. family connections! pedigree does matter - and it might as well matter, it's inescapable....

consider each of these people.
we know Cleophus is a disciple of Jesus. and you? what faith can this man give to you?
Mary, with Jesus' mother, at the foot of the cross - daughter of the brother of Jesus' father. family. when you decide to write your next short story, how about using this woman's life as an inspiration. imagine, a cousin of Jesus. what could that have been like.
James the Lesser, i.e., not the James of James and John, sons of Zebedee. so the son of the brother of the father of Jesus is a Lesser.... ?

seven steps to Kevin Bacon?

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