in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit the lord be with you my brothers and sisters let us acknowledge you are saying and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries lord jesus you raise the dead to life in the spirit lord have mercy lord jesus you bring pardon and peace to the center christ have mercy lord jesus you bring light to those in darkness lord have mercy and may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life god who have united the many nations in confessing your name grant that those three born in the font of baptism may be one in the faith of their hearts and the homage of their deeds through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god forever and people you children of israel why are you amazed at this and why do you look so intently at us as if we had made him walk by our own power pity the god of abraham the god of isaac and the god of jacob the god of our fathers as glorified his servant jesus whom you handed over and denied him pilots presence when here decided to release him you deny the holy and righteous one and ask that a murderer be released to you the author of life you put to death but god raised him from the dead of this we are witnesses and by faith in his name this man whom you see and know his name has made strong and the faith that comes through it has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you now i know brothers and sisters that you acted out of ignorance just as your leaders did but god as thus brought us to fulfillment what h announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets that his christ would suffer repent therefore and be converted that your sins may be wiped away and that the lord may grant you times of refreshment and send you the christ already appointed for you jesus whom heaven must receive until the times of universal restoration of which god spoke through the mouth of his holy profits from hold for  prophet like me will the lord your god result for you from among your own kin to him you shall listen and all that he may say to you everyone who does not listen to that profit will be cut off from the people moreover all the prophets who spoke from samuel and those afterwards also announced these days you are the children of the prophets and of the covenant that god made with your ancestors when he said to abraham in your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed for you first god raised up his servant and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways the word of the lord response responses oh lord our god how wonderful  oh lord our lord how glorious is your name over all the earth what is man that you should be mindful of or the son of man that you should care for an overlord or a god are wonderful your name you know the year you have made him little less than the angels and crowned him with glory and honor you have given him rule over the works of your hands putting all things on there his feet oh lord our god how wonderful your name no are ready for the holy gospel according to luke the disciples of jesus recounted what had taken place along the way and how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of the bread while they were still speaking about  stood in their midst and said to them peace be with you but they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost and he said to them why are you troubled and why do questions arise in your hearts look at my hands and my feet that i s i myself touch me and see because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see i have and as he said this he showed them his hands and his feet while they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed he asked them have you anything here to eat they gave him a piece of baked fish he took it and ate it in front of them he said to them these are my words that i spoke to you while i was still with you that everything written about me in the law of moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures and he said to them thus it is written that the christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be preached in his name to all the nations beginning from jerusalem you are witnesses of these things the gospel of the lord a little recap again today one of the days in the octave of easter the eight day celebration and all week the gospel story gives us a resurrection appearance from a different perspective from matthew mark luke or john so we have a continuation of looks gospel today following right upon that beautiful story of yesterday the appearance of jesus to the disciples on the road to m a s so today's episode or installment brings those disciples back with the others with the great news that they had seen the lord and then another appearance comes to them so i think every day  british perspective of the different gospel writers we've seen how the people in the early church were really eager to see a reappearance of jesus in some cases they were very disappointed add his apparent failure in other cases they certainly were filled with hope that maybe they would be able to see him as he reappeared to them to see him and to hear him and to touch him a to be with him and so  today's gospel story gives us that perspective they saw the lord but immediately became afraid of him because they thought that they were seeing a ghost because it was so hard for them to believe that disciples that it was truly him that he had come back to them and he did that of course by his physical appearance the ability for them to touch him but even in something as simple as eating with them just like we saw in yesterday's gospel with the disciples press jesus to stay with them he talked to the vet about scripture he shared a meal with them and then he disappeared today he had breakfast with them a delicious breakfast of cooked fish not on our menu but it was real for then nonetheless that physical appearance of jesus he was truly there and so here we are gathering all these many many years later we put our faith and trust in jesus we want to see him we want to be able to touch him we want to know that he's real to us and we'll see it happen again the physical manifestation of jesus in the in the bread and in the cup in body and in blood sometimes we come to the lord and get consolation from his divinity today the gospel reminds us that often we can get consolation from him by his humanity my brothers and sisters let us pray now as we approach the father who raised jesus from the dead with the faith in his love for us and so we pray for the church guided by the holy spirit that the church will be a beacon to the world inviting all people to believe in the risen lord jesus let us pray to the lord for government rulers that they will and act laws that safeguard the lives of all people especially the unborn let us pray to the lord for those whose faith in jesus as our saving lord is wavering that they will grow stronger through our example of prayer and study and practice we pray to the lord that we will have the desire and courage to promote the gospel by giving witness to the beauty of our faith let us pray to the lord for our sister ethel and for all those who have died that they will have the joy of seeing jesus face to face in heaven let cry brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours will be acceptable to god the almighty father has ordered six or fry so your hands are praising glory of his name for our good the good of all it's all in church gracious be pleased no more to accept the sacrificial gifts we offer joyfully both for those who have been reborn and in hope of your increased help from heaven through christ our lord  lord but on this day above all to laud you yet more gloriously when christ our passover has been sacrificed for he is the true lamb who has taken away the sins of the world by dying he has destroyed our death and by rising rescored our life therefore overcome with passable joy every land every people exults in your praise and even the heavenly powers with blood of our lord jesus christ at the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion 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 in a similar way when supper was ended he took the chalice and once more giving thanks he gave it to his disciples saying take this all of you and drink from it for this is the chalice of my blood the blood of the new and eternal covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins to this and memory of me therefore as we celebrate the memorial of his death and resurrection we offer you lord the bread of life and the chalice of salvation giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you humbly we pray that partaking of the body and blood of christ we may be gathered into one by the holy spirit remember lowered your church spread throughout the 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 and may praise and glorify you through your son jesus christ through him and with him and in him oh god almighty father in the unity of all glory graciously grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress as we await the blessid hope and the coming of our savior jesus christ  the power of the story worse for ever lord jesus christ who said to your apostles peace i leave you my peace i give you look not on our sins but on the faith of your church and sins of the world bless it or those who are cold to the supper of the lamb lord i am not worthy that you should enter under my roof but only say the word in my soul sh