{"id":3177,"date":"2007-04-27T18:35:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T22:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2026-07-19T14:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:07:01","slug":"walk-to-emmaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/walk-to-emmaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk to Emmaus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Walk to Emmaus is a program put on by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upperroom.org\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Upper Room Ministries<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Upper Room promotes Spiritual Formation (i.e., contemplative spirituality), and if you want to understand the dynamics of Walk to Emmaus, then understanding the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120201174924\/http:\/\/upperroom.org:80\/methodx\/thelife\/prayermethods\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">spirituality<\/span><\/strong><\/a> of Upper Room will help you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Walk to Emmaus is an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Cursillo Movement, which originated in Spain in 1949.&#8221; from the Walk to Emmaus website<\/p>\n<p>Walk to Emmaus is widely spread. It is estimated that over half a million persons have experienced a Walk to Emmaus weekend and today the Movement counts more than 300 communities distributed all over the United States as well as all over the world.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cursillos.ca\/en\/expansion\/eglises\/emmaus.htm\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">1<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mantra Meditation is promoted at Upper Room Ministries also:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mantra &#8212; The word comes from Sanskrit. Its two-syllabus mean: man or mind and tra or deliverance. A mantra is sound vibration that is intended to deliver the mind from distractions and a focus on the material world. A mantra is repeated like a chant and has a spiritual effect associated with the physical vibration. A mantra can be as simple as one syllable &#8216;OM&#8217; or as more complicated such as, &#8216;OM SRI RAM JAI RAM JAI JAI RAM&#8217;.&#8221; From the Upper Room website<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Walk to Emmaus is an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Cursillo Movement, which originated in Spain in 1949.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120621174133\/http:\/\/upperroom.org:80\/emmaus\/whatis\/\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151109171910\/http:\/\/www.tresdias.org:80\/hp.htm\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Tres Dias<\/span><\/strong><\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151109171910\/http:\/\/www.tresdias.org:80\/hp.htm\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">an offshoot<\/span><\/strong><\/a> of the Cursillo Movement and should be avoided as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cursillos.ca\/en\/liens\/cur-meth.htm#emmaus\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">List of places<\/span><\/strong><\/a> that do Walk to Emmaus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120620144444\/http:\/\/upperroom.org:80\/emmaus\/\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>The Walk to Emmaus (The Upper Room) website<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071018041729\/http:\/\/www.upperroom.org:80\/daily\/?p=178\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Upper Room and Lectio Divina<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walk to Emmaus is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemplative-denominations","wpcat-167-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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