share in the resurrection of christ your son who lives in mainz with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god for ever and ever a after inflicting many blows on them they threw them into prison and instructed the jailer to guard them securely when he received these instructions he put them in the innermost self and secured their feet a state about midnight while paul and silas were praying and singing hymns to god as the prisoners listened there was suddenly a such such a severe earthquake that the foundations of the jail shut all the doors flew open and the chains of all were pulled loose when the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open and he drew his sword and was about to kill himself thinking that the prisoners had escaped but paul shouted out in a loud voice do not do harm to yourself we are all here he asked for light and rushed in and trembling with fear he fell down before paul and silas then he brought them out and said servers what must i do to be saved and they said believe in the lord jesus and you and your household will be saved so they spoke the word of the lord to him and to everyone in his house he took them in at that hour of the night and bathed their wounds then he and all his family were baptized at once he brought them up into the house his house and provided a meal and with his house hold rejoiced at having come to faith in god the word of the lord thanks to god your right hand saves me a lord your right hand saves me oh lord i will give thanks to you a lord with all my heart for you have heard the words of my mouth in the presence of the angels i will sing you i will worship your holy temple and give thanks to your name your right hand because of your kindness and your truth you have made great above all things your name and your lord and doors forever for a safe not the work of your hands your right the lord be with you reading from the holy gospel according to john truth it is better for you that i go for if i do not go the advocate will not come to you but if i go i will send him to you when he comes he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation sin because they do not believe in me righteousness because i am going to the father in jail and you will no longer see me condemnation because the ruler of this world has been condemned the gospel of the lord their salvation comes in the wake in the earthquake and they could have escaped in gone somewhere else but they stayed there and the jailer realizing that something much greater than himself had been happening to those throws himself at their feet in ultimately becomes a christian along with the other members of the south so it's very dramatic it's told in a way that everybody would pay attention to each of those little details as the story is is on hold it and a sense it's a great tradition that we have of letting people know how people came to the faith whenever you read about the missionaries in various countries and they tell stories about how people became christians sometimes with a lot of suffering sometimes with a lot of martyrdom most of us just become christians because our parents were catholics or we found interest in pursuing catholicism some time in our older life if we were not originally catholics so our stories are rarely as as interesting or as dramatic as what we heard in today's st reading but they're just as important because it's our life our salvation our redemption our christianity that has come to us in whatever way it has come but then afterwards it's up to us to live it and the same thing with the story in the acts of the apostles after this whole family has been made part of the new way of following god they have to make sure that way it happens in the rest of their life as here's to what they are all about in the same thing for ourselves we who accept our whole the holiness of being a good christian we have to say to ourselves each a today is another day i have to ask the lord to give me the strength i need to follow him to be a true believer not only up in the mind but also in my in my life the drama of becoming a christian sometimes is very dramatic but the importance of living the christian faith is even more important and not only for special people but for people like ourselves the name of the father and of the son and of the and women in the service who we commemorated yesterday we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for those who are ill those who are hospitalized especially catherine ritchie that god bless them and guide them and give good lord our god we ask you to listen to our prayers we bring them to you in the name of jesus our brother and savior who is with us god forever and ever amen oh oh time he was betrayed in entered willingly to his passion he took bread and giving thanks broke it and gave it to his disciples saying take his soul of human eat of it this is my body which will be given up for you covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you humbly recreate that partaking of the body and blood of christ we may be gathered into one by the holy spirit remember lord your church spread savior jesus christ world the whole the love of god the hold him who takes away the sins of the world blessed are those called to the