If you hope to progress in prayer, you must learn to wait … all your life must be a continuous waiting, like that of Anna and Simeon. - Emmanuel d'Alzon
As the curtain rises on this famous Gospel scene, we find Cleopas and the other unnamed disciple walking away from Jerusalem in something of a daze. They’re unfocused, literally disoriented – walking away from the East, away from Jerusalem, away from the Resurrection.
