holy spirit and grace to you and peace from god our father and the lord jesus christ and with your spirit and so my brothers and sisters as we gather at americus parish church st patrick's  many from across the country we stand before the lord now and ask for pardon and forgiveness for all of our  mercy and may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life and that let us pray oh god who by the precious blood of your only be gotten son have redeemed the whole world preserve in us the work of your mercy so that ever honoring the mystery of our salvation we may merit to octane its fruits through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god forever endeavor are an angel of the lord appeared to him in fire flaming out of the bush as he looked on he was surprised to see that the bush though on fire was not consumed so moses decided i must go over to look at this remarkable site and see why the bush is not when the lord saw him coming over to look at it more closely god called out to him from the moses here i am god said come no nearer remove the sandals from your feet for the place where you stand is holy ground i am the god of your father continued the the word of the lord justice and the rights of all the oppressed he has made known his ways to moses and his deeds to the children of his  the lord be with you a reading from the holy gospel according to matthew at that time jesus explains i give praise to you father lord of heaven and earth for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learner did you have revealed them to the childlike yes father such has been your gracious will all things had been handed over to me by my father no one knows the son except the father and no one knows the father except the son and any one true home he wishes to reveal him the gospel of the lord i hope this is true but perhaps it's good to say that he might be among the bless who have been able to put our deep faith in jesus christ part of that i'm sure is what brings us to church here today every day part of our regular routine that keeps faith in jesus we hear his teaching through the gospel and through the church we've absorbed it and we live it so that's a blessing for all of us at the same time we know that there are people in our lives some people we don't know people who might be close to us upon whom the teaching of jesus has fallen on deaf ears and for the perhaps it's accurate to say that maybe they're just a little too proud to accept the teachings of jesus so that puts them in a different category completely so we come to the gospel story today and we hear how jesus says that the secrets of heaven are interested to those who are like children that child like he uses that example several times in scripture over a variety of the evangelists how important it is to be open and trusting and dependant the qualities and characteristics of a child maybe you noticed that in the st reading today from the old testament a rather famous story of moses before the burning bush look at the level of humility that moses had when he approached the lord when god told him that he was on holy ground when he encountered a realisation of the presence of  he had his face a supreme act of humility really being able to be completely dependent and open to the lord so it's a good reminder for us that the gospel that we believe in the gospel that we follow is really so much a matter of faith the faith that was given to us in baptism maybe nourish and nurtured by our parents or our parochial school or our religious education  my brothers and sisters we bring our prayers and petitions to the heavenly father who has given us life with confidence that he will answer all prayer for all in the church that it will be a beacon of light to wall bringing the good news to those who put their faith in the lord let us pray for the lord for world leaders that they will look knowledge endorse the freedom of their people to worship and live their faith let us pray to the lord that all places in the world that demeans humanity made by our prayers and the power of the holy spirit be moved to reject their actions and respect the gift of life given by god let us pray to the board that we may pray and live out the precepts of our faith through devout effort asian let us pray to the lord and for our sister in christ antonia and for all who have died that they will come to know the everlasting peace of god our father let us pra just our duty and our salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks lord holy father almighty and eternal god for through the saving passion of your son the whole world has received a heart to confess the infinite power of your majesty since by the wondrous power of the cross your judgment on the world is now revealed and the authority of christ crucified and so lord with all the angels blood of our lord jesus christ at the time he was betrayed and then trade 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 the 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 me for this is the  the blood of the new and eternal covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory  the 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 thank you have helped 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 lord your church spread throughout the world and 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 with the blessing virgin mary refresh the lord by this saving food and drink we pray that we may always be bathed in the blood of our savior so that it may become for us a spring of water welling up to eternal life