of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen the grace of our lord lord jesus christ and the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit be with you all and with your spirit and sisters my brother i confess to a mighty god into my brothers and sisters that i have greatly since in my thoughts and in my words in what i have done and what i failed to do for my faults through my faults in my most grievous fall therefore i reading from the acts of the apostles peter and john were going up to the temple area for the three o'clock hour of prayer and a man crippled from birth was carried and placed at the gate of the temple called the beautiful gate every day to beg for alms from the people who entered to temple when he saw peter and john about to go into the temple he asked for alms but peter looked intently at him as did john and said look at us he paid attention to them expecting to receive something from them peter said i have neither silver nor gold but what i do have i give to you in the name of jesus christ and walk then peter took him by the right hand and raised him up and immediately his feet and ankles grew strong he leapt up stood and walked around and went into the temple with them walking and jumping and praising god when all the people saw him walking in praising god they recognized him as the one who used to sit begging at the beautiful gate of the temple and they were filled with amazement and astonishment at what had happened to him the word of the lord thanks me to god rejoice all hearts that seek the lord rejoice so hearts that seek the lord give thanks to the lord invoke his name make known among the nations h deeds sing to him sing his praise for claim all his wonderous deeds rejoice so hearts that seek the lord glory in his holy name rejoice oh hearts that seek the lord look to the lord in his strength seek to serve him constantly rejoice so hard so that seek the lord you descendants of abraham his servants sons of jacob his chosen ones he the lord is our god throughout  the earth his judgments prevail joyce the lord he remembers forever his covering which he made binding for a one thousand generations which he entered into with abraham and by his oath to say rejoice so hearts that seek the lord that very day the st day of the week two of jesus's disciples were going to a village seven miles from jerusalem called emmaus and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred and it happened that while they were conversing in debating jesus himself to near and walk with them but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him he asked them what are you discussing as you walk along they stopped looking  downcast one of them named theaters said to him in reply are you the only to visitor to jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place there these days and he replied to them what sort of things crucified him but we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem israel beside all this it is now the rd day since this took place some women from our group however have astounded us they went to the tomb and early in the morning and did not find his body they came back and reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels were announced that he was alive then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described but him they did not see and he said to them oh how foolish you are how slow is hard to believe all the prophets spoke was it not necessary that the christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory then beginning with moses and all the prophets he interpreted to them would refer to him in all the scriptures as they approached the village to which they were going he gave the impression that he was going farther but they urged him stay with us for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over so he went in to stay with them it happened that while he was with them a table each with bread said the blessing broke it and gave it to them with that their eyes were opened and they recognized him but he vanished from their sight then they said to one another were not our hearts burning within us when he spoke to us on the way and open the scriptures to us so they set out at once and returned to jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them who were saying the lord has truly been raised and has appeared to simon then the two recounted would have taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread  when i was in the seminary college i had to do a a paper on this very story of the road to emmaus and the phrase that i had to deal with was the breaking of the bread and what we hear what we heard just now was that jesus took bread in brocade said the blessing broke it and gave it to them that's exact same phrase that is in the last supper and the exact same phrase it's in the the accounts of the feeding of the five thousand and the others at different times and in a sense is almost a formula for exactly what the early christians understood was so important for them to do with jesus did at the last supper where jesus did hear in today's gospel story where jesus did at different times in his life doing a very typical jewish way of starting a meal or starting something that was going to bring people together saying the blessing of breaking the bread and sharing so that's what you and i as we all do we celebrate the eucharist when we have math when we come here or whatever church we go to on sunday or any other day we come for the breaking of the bridge as a matter of fact in the early days that's what  christians call to the breaking of the bread didn't use the word mass or even eucharist right away it was the breaking of the bread because it was so important because jesus himself they'd given people that example of how important it was because it went beyond the bread because if you remember in the last supper take and eat this is my body it's not bread anymore it's the body of the lord and the same with the cup so we during this breaking of the bread by which we share our faith with each other and we in the board is blessing us by being part of who we are in our own bodies in the name of the father and of the son into the holy spirit in the to spray for our holy father pope francis in our shepherd cardinal golden god bless them we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for the suffering christians throughout the world who are being persecuted for their faith in the resurrection we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for victims of war and violence in all parts of the world those who are suffering from economic ruin in this way ella and in other parts of our world that god give them all strength we prayed to the lord lord hear ou prayer for those who work for the defense of human life those who work for peace those who work for justice that god may bless their labors we prayed to the lord lord hear our prayer for our servicemen and women throughout the world especially those who are in harm's way in afghanistan and other places we prayed to the lord lord here after prayer and in the silence of our own hearts that each of us add our own particular intention to you lord god of all creation through your goodness we have received the grid we offer you fruit of the earth in the work of human hands will become for us the bread of life blood  word the sacrifice which has redeemed the human race and be pleased to accomplish in us salvation of mind and body through christ our lord you man the lord be with you and with your spirit lift up your heart lift him up to the lord let us give thanks to the lord our god it is right in just these truly right in just our duty in our salvation always to proclaim you aboard and but on this day above lord you yet more gloriously when christ our passover has been sacrificed for he is the true land was taken away the sins of the world by dying he has destroyed our  rising restored our life therefore overcome with pascall joy every land every people exults in your praise and even the heavenly powers for the enjoy the coasts sing together that the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his fashion he took bread and giving thanks broke it and gave it to his disciples saying take this all of you and eat of it for this is my body which will be given up for you similar raven sufferance ended he took the chalice once more giving thanks he gave it to his disciples saying take his soul if you are entering for me where this is the chalice of my blood the blood of the new and eternal covenant which will be poor and out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me we pray that partaking of the body and blood of christ we may be gathered into one by the holy spirit remember lord your church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness of charity together with franc his may also be one with him in his resurrection remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy welcomed them into the light of your face have mercy on us all we pray that with the blessing virgin mary mother of god would bless a joseph or spouse with the blessing apostles and all the saints will please to you throughout the ages not in our sins but on the faith of your church and graciously grant her peace in his he in accordance with your will who lived and reigned for ever and ever amen the peace of the lord be with you always and please join in singing the communion him number four hundred and eighty at the lamb's high feast to number four hundred and eighty three um we praise the lord that the reverend reception of the sacrament of your son may cleanse us from our always and transform us into a new creation through christ our lord and the lord be with you and with your