Hi Year 5,
Christians celebrate Pentecost as the birthday of the Christian Church and remember especially the gift of the Holy Spirit.
This week’s Big Question requires a lot of thinking and discussing, so talk to your family and talk to your friends on the blog. Other people’s answers might make you think about something else.
First, I would like you to read this story:
On the Sunday evening two disciples were on their way to Emmaus, a village seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking about everything that had happened and did not recognise the stranger who joined them as they walked along. “What are you talking about so sadly?” he asked them. They turned to him, their faces full of their sadness. The disciple named Cleopas, answered him. “You must be the only person in Jerusalem who does not know all the things that have been going on these last few days?”
“What things?” Jesus asked. “What happened to Jesus of Nazareth,” they said, “The great prophet who showed by all he did and said that he was sent by God. Our chief priests and leaders handed him over to the Romans and he was crucified. We had hoped that he was the Promised One who would set Israel free. This morning, some women went to the tomb where he had been buried and came back saying they had seen a vision of angels and that Jesus was alive. Some of our friends went to the tomb and found it empty as the women had said, but they didn’t see anything of Jesus.”
Jesus said to them, “How slow you are to believe! Don’t you remember the promises of the prophets about the Christ who would suffer and rise to new life?” Then Jesus started with Moses and went through all the Scriptures explaining the message about himself. By now they were near to Emmaus, and they begged him to stay with them. So he did. They sat down at table together. He took the bread, blessed it and broke it and gave it to them. Suddenly, as if their eyes had just opened, they recognised him; but even as they did, he vanished. “How could we not have known!” they exclaimed. “Weren’t our hearts burning as he talked to us and explained the Scriptures to us?” At once they set out and returned to Jerusalem. When they arrived, the Eleven and the other disciples said, “Yes, it’s true! He has appeared to Simon!” and then they told their story and how they had recognised him when he blessed and broke the bread.
Based on Luke 24: 13-35
This week’s Big Question: What was it about the ‘breaking of bread’ that made the disciples recognise Jesus?
Try to include scripture in your answers by making links to the time Jesus ‘broke bread’ and your experiences of ‘breaking of bread’.
Please proof-read your response before submitting (check punctuation, spelling and grammar).
We look forward to reading your responses,
Mrs Avdiu & Ms Robertson
Hello Miss Avdiu &Miss Robertson,
I have read the story ‘ breaking bread ‘.
Jesus disciples recognized him thanks to The Last Supper because he broke the bread exactly like he did before.
First, they did not recognized him because he was crucified and should be dead. Jesus started with Moses and went through the scratcher explaining the message of himself. The two of the disciples asked the man to stay with them . They sat on a table together and the man brock the bread and gave it to the disciples. Suddenly, as if they‘d never opened their eyes They recognized Jesus !
(Luke 24 :13 -35)
Thanks Violette. What did you mean by ‘Jesus started with Moses and went through the scratcher’? It may have been a typing error so please always check your typed writing before submitting.
Hello Mrs Avdiu and Ms Robertson, I hope that you all enjoyed your Easter Break. I read the story, I was discussing it with the teachers at the hub and I thought about the story of The Last Supper. In The Last Supper, Jesus breaks the bread and blesses it for Him and His Disciples. In the Scripture, Mark 14:22 ” And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it, broke it and gave it to them, and said ‘ Take; this is my body’ ” That reminds me of Holy Communion when Father Christopher breaks the bread and blesses it, for us to then receive.
Thank you Elsa. You were right to link this to the Last Supper and Holy Communion.
The breaking of the bread made the disciples recognise Jesus because he also broke the bread at the Last Supper in the same way and told the disciples it was a symbol of his body. This is why we take the bread in communion.