The pilgrim lifts his face toward the Temple at Zion’s height. It is the earthly home of the one God, tireless guardian of Israel. We, too, travel to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, which the old Jerusalem of stone cannot compare to. ‘We have here no lasting city, and we are looking for the one to come’ (Heb 13:14).
God is faithful; he watches over us day and night. On the road to Emmaus, Jesus joins them, but they do not recognize him. ‘If God is with us, who could be against us?’ Pray at the start of a difficult task: a conversion, a vocation, the beginning of a family, risks taken for the good of all.