a reading from the acts of the apostles peter and john were going up to the temple area for the three o'clock hour prayer and a man crippled from birth was carried in place that the gate of  temple called the beautiful gate every day to beg for alms from the people who entered the temple when he saw peter and john about going to the temple p s for all but peter looked intently at him 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 you in the name of jesus christ of nazareth rise 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 and 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 to god we joyce all hearts that seek the lord rejoice so hard that the lord give thanks to the lord invoke his name make known among the rejoice all hearts that seek the lord look to the lord in his strength and seek to serve him constantly rejoice so hard that i think the lord you descendants of abraham his servants son of jacob his chosen ones he the lord is our god throughout the earth his judgments prevail rejo he remembers for ever his covenant which he made binding for a thousand generations which he entered into with abraham and by his oath to isaac rejoice so hard to see the that very day that first day the reach to jesus is disciples were going to a village seven miles from jerusalem called him out and they were conversing about all the things that has 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 that they asked he asked them what are you discussing as you walk along and he stopped looked down cast one of them named cleopas said in reply are you the only visitor to jerusalem who does not know the things that have taken place there in these days and he replied to them what sort of things they said to him the things that happened to jesus the nasser rian was a prophet mighty deed and word before god in all the people our chief priests and rulers both handed him over to his sentence of death and crucified him but we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem israel besides all this it is now the third day since his place so women alive and some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described but him they did not sing and he said to them oh how foolish you are how slow and hard to believe all the people that 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 what referred to him you know the scriptures as they approached the village to which they were going he gave the impression that he was going on farther but they urged him stay with us it is nearly evening in the days almost over so we went to see him to stay with them and it happened that while he was at the table with them he took bread said the blessing broke it and  them with that their eyes were opened and they recognized him but he vanished from their sight then they said to each other were not our hearts burning within us while 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 and the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made to known to them in the breaking of the bread the gospel of the lord this is a very famous story of the appearance of jesus of the two men on the road to emmaus or a mouse where as we heard all of the things that happened  revelation of who he was came when he broke the bread and the churches to the centuries since that has always used that image of the breaking of the bread to remind us of what we do at the altar what we do what jesus did at the last supper what in many gospel stories the gospel writers talked about in a significant way that the breaking of the bread during the gospel time was an important thing because he revealed his goodness to people but for us the breaking of the bread is the continuation of what happened at the last supper what happened on the road to emmaus and what happens  even now in our own time here in our own church is that when we break the bread it's not bread that we're breaking anymore and it becomes the body and blood of christ it's what we believe as catholic christians that the importance of what happens at the altar when the bread and wine are offered to god the words that jesus used at the last supper do this in memory of me is exactly what why we're doing it and what we're doing so when you come to church going to mass and we receive holy communion we are continuing something that has a great connection with easter mysteries that were celebrating during these days the breaking of the bread is not a an act of hunger or an act of ordinary act of what people do in their homes but it's some thing christ in today's revelation in the gospel was one of the first times and people started to realize that that understanding of the breaking of the bread was much more  important than ever thought before the name of the father and of the son and of before the spirit and i just pray for ourselves that we do everything we can to bring our families holiness and goodness we pray to the board lord europe or we pray for those who have asked us to pray for them god's loving hand may touch their pray to the board lord your birth in the silence of our own hearts that each of us add our own particular intention we pray to the glory lord europe are called 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 guide for ever and ever amen be poor word for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me humbly we pray that partaking of the body and blood of christ we may be gathered into one by the holy spirit remember the lord your church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness of charity together with fr with him and his friends erection remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy and welcome them into the light of your fa at the saviors command informed by divine teaching we dare to say and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from me to the for us lord we pray for him every evil 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 both in the coming of our savior jesus christ for the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever more jesus christ who said your peace of the lord is with you always with your spirit that is software each other the sign of peace please join and sing our communion him number four eighty at the lambs high feast number four eight zero we pray the lord that the reverence reception of the sacrament of your son may cleanse us from our always in transform us into a new creation through christ our lord in that the lord be with you with your