from the dead that in all things he himself may be preeminent in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell and through him to wreak reconcile all things for him joy into the presence of the lo lord be with you reading from the holy gospel according to l likewise no one poor is new wine into old wine skins otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled in the skins will be ruined rather new wine must be poured into fresh win skin is no one who has been drinking or wine desires new or he says the old is good the gospel of the lord  st reading that we had today same paul is emphasizing to the people of collage the central and ultimate importance of jesus in their lives they had never seen him because they the jinn a different part of the world they never heard his preaching never saw his miracles and yet the preaching of paul and the other early christian missionaries was enough to establish a committee  a congregation here in this town in another town most of what we call now greece and the christian community began to become larger and larger ultimately ending up the way it is now about the whole world the most important things for the people of cologne to understand this for as paul was concerned that their faith was not in him their faces not in their leaders their faith was not in some messianic or very beautiful person but in the one jesus who is the beginning in the end of everything and that image that understanding of the relationship that the people collusions had with jesus himself even though they never experienced him in person was something that paul said most we must always remember this never forget this never worry about looking to others because only to the lord himself that we look so in the world in which we live sometimes there are disappointments in the leaders that we have people are not is true or as fully as we want them to be and sometimes people get discouraged and walk away st paul would be the st one to say don't do that because it's not your leaders it's not your preacher says that your teachers it's the lord himself who is the focus of what the church is all about what our faith is all about what our prayers should be all about certainly people can disappoint us certainly people can do things that we say i can believe that but the most important one for us should always be and always will be the lord himself and the relationship that we have through the church with the lord st paul would be a very strong preacher to all of us in modern for those who work for the defense of human life from its earliest moments for those who work for peace and for justice that god needs less to labors we pray to the lord for the victims of tragedies throughout the world we prayed to the lord and the 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 you is god for ever and ever amen oh may call the there for these gifts we crave by sending down your spirit upon them like you do for so that they may become for us the body and blood of our the word jesus christ the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion too and giving thanks broke it and gave it to his disciples saying take this all of you and eat it for this is my body which will be given up for you evil graciously grants peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all the stress as real weight the blessed said hope and the coming of our savior our community here is number five hundred and i know five hundred and nine draw near and take the body of the lord on