00:00:05:12 - 00:00:35:13 Unknown Grace to Jesus and Mary in the first reading, The power of the risen Lord is revealed to the crowd gathered to pray in the temple. In it, as also in today's gospel, the Lord is recognized by His divine power. This is shown in acts by miraculous healing. It the demands by the Eucharist. The healing occurred at the Temple where Peter and John went at 3:00 in the afternoon for the period that accompanied the evening sacrifice. 00:00:36:06 - 00:01:20:05 Unknown That sacrifice had been instituted. God voted for in order to prefigure the sacrifice of Christ on the cross at 3:00. Now, it was obsolete, but still being continued by those who had failed to recognize the fulfillment of that figure. Yesterday, we heard that 3000 Jews were baptized. Following Saint Peter's sermon at Pentecost, that was a good sign. But the vast majority of Jews still remains to be converted by going up to the temple for the prayer that the apostles could meet as others to see and have the opportunity to speak to them, perhaps convince some of them that Jesus was the one who figured by that right the true them of the evening sacrifice. 00:01:20:21 - 00:01:43:21 Unknown At the gate there was the usual cripple who had been brought there to beg for many years. The Apostles had probably seen him time and time again, when every time they went up to the temple. On that day, however, Saint Peter felt that God wanted to heal that man. And so with the authority he had received from God, he said to him, In the name of Jesus, the Nazarene, rise and walk. 00:01:44:16 - 00:02:11:17 Unknown Immediately he was healed and could not only walk, but to even jump for joy. And so by jumping and praising God, he drew attention to himself. People looked at him and recognized that he was the crippled man who was always there at the gate. Some of them had seen him every year or perhaps even had seen him perhaps every day when when they came up to the temple every year after a year, perhaps for decades, what had happened? 00:02:11:18 - 00:02:33:03 Unknown How is he now walking and jumping? They wanted an explanation. Tomorrow, we'll hear what Saint Peter said to them. Turning our attention to the gospel, we notice that there's a certain irony in the encounter with the two disciples on the road to a mass. They thought that he was the ignorant one, and so they began to explain things as they understood them. 00:02:34:02 - 00:02:57:14 Unknown They certainly didn't expect to get the response. Oh, how foolish you are. I still have hard to believe the this episode invites us to humility, which is the first thing that we need when we deal with the mysteries of faith and sacred scripture. If we can misunderstand those, how much more can we misunderstand events in our lives thinking, for example, that God has abandoned? 00:02:57:14 - 00:03:28:22 Unknown That's when the opposite is true. Another irony is that the disciples were sad and disappointed at the very moment when Israel's hope had been realized. They mistook Christ's victory for defeat. It was because of this error that Christ hid his identity from them at the time where his passion did not recognized him, of whom the Scripture spoke. And so he did not make himself known to their eyes until he was known to their minds, beginning with Moses and all the prophets. 00:03:28:23 - 00:03:49:08 Unknown There was no way to explain to them in all the scriptures which referred to him. It would be great to be able to listen to that and to listen to our Lord's own explanation of all the prophecies, all the types that until Scripture, they were probably walking for hours and he had quite a bit of time to to explain things. 00:03:51:03 - 00:04:09:14 Unknown When they finally arrived at him and he pretended that he had further to go and in fact, he really did have a very long way to go. He had to ascend to the father. He was not going to stay on earth, but he did agree to stop for supper. However, it would be his supper, the Last Supper, the Eucharist. 00:04:10:09 - 00:04:31:12 Unknown So while he was with them at table, he took bread and sent the blessing, broke it and gave it to them. This is the exact same sequence of actions that he performed when he instituted the Eucharist. And so with that, their eyes were open and they recognized him. But he banished from their sight. In fact, only the sacrament of his presence in the story of him. 00:04:31:12 - 00:04:57:18 Unknown As we have the pattern of the mass for the explanation of Scripture. And then comes the Eucharist, which makes it present, the mystery of which the Scriptures speak of Scripture speaks of Christ. And in the Eucharist he is present to us. It's in the light of the past chemistry and the light of the passion, death and resurrection of our Lord that we are able to understand the properties of the Old Testament. 00:04:58:06 - 00:05:21:04 Unknown We are able to see Christ prefigured in the various figures in people and things in the Old Testament, although we ought to be able to obtain such an understanding on our own. Very often we suffer from that same defect for which it is upgraded. The disciples. We are foolish and still hard to believe. We just don't catch on. 00:05:21:22 - 00:05:44:13 Unknown So there it is in our liturgical encounter with the Lord when when the light of the resurrection shines among us, that we come to understand the Scriptures better versed in the liturgy of the Word, God speaks to us. And then the priest or the deacon explains the word by the gift given to him in ordination. Then we come to a deeper understanding and the breaking of the bread. 00:05:44:25 - 00:06:13:11 Unknown This is where we see Christ by faith. You know, the Christ is present by faith and really encounter him present under the sacramental veils. Scripture is that surgical in origin. So the letters Saint Paul wrote his letters to be read in the in the assembly of the Christians. Then the then also in the law of Moses, we see the law of Moses being read in an assembly, the time of a vision. 00:06:13:11 - 00:06:40:08 Unknown Nehemiah And so a scripture is made for the liturgy, scriptures, and the liturgy is the natural place where it is to be read and interpreted many doctrines of the church that as large numbers of families and in some cases all their readings are harmonies for fathers of the church as well. So that is participated mass with this intention of coming to know our Lord better and then experiencing his real presence. 00:06:40:28 - 00:07:27:00 Unknown Then the better we know Him, the more we will, the more reason we all have to love him. Very sweet. Jesus and Mary. Now.