Also in Acts 2: 42. Which is the action of the early Christians and how they worshiped. Peter, Paul, John, Mathew, Luke, and the Gang. They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers. With every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple area and to breaking bread in their home.
We see again in the story of Emmaus: Luke 24: 25 and following: And he said to them, oh how foolish you are. How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke. Beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted for them what referred to him in all the scriptures. As they approached the village they urged him to stay with them. And it happened that while he was with them at table, he took bread said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to 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 while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us. Then they recounted to the rest of the apostles what had taken place and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.
We see the mass again in Emmaus, first Jesus explains the scripture and then he breaks bread with them and then through the breaking of the bread Jesus was revealed to them but then he vanished. As if to say from now on it will be through faith you will no longer need to see me but have faith.
When we read the early fathers just as we heard with Justin Martyr. We see how the church has always known that the Eucharist was just what Jesus said it to be, his body and blood. His Flesh for us to feed on, so he can reveal himself to us in the breaking of the bread, we do at every mass it is our mass.
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