jesus christ in the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit be with you all with your spirit my sisters and brothers a invite you to join me kneeling to ask for god's mercy during this whole the season of le i confess to almighty god and to my brothers and sisters that i have greatly since my thoughts and in my words what i have done and what i have failed to do through my fault through my fault through my therefore i ask less it mariette of virtue and all the angels and saints and you my brothers and sisters to pray for me the lord our god may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us t everlasting li who god who raised up the priest st vincent her to minister by the preaching of the gospel grant we pray that when the judge comes from st vincent proclaimed on earth we may be among those bless to be hold him reigning in heaven who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god for ever and ever amen reading from the book of the prophet daniel made whenever you hear the sound of the trumpet flute or harp psaltery bagpipes and all the other musical instruments otherwise you should be instantly cast into the white hot furnace and who is the lord be with you reading from the holy gospel according to john jesus said to those jews who believed in him if you remain in my word you will truly be my disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free he answered him we are descendants of abraham and have never been slaves to anyone how can you say you will become free jesus answered them you men i say to you everyone who commits sin  abraham but you are trying to kill me because my word has no room among you i tell you what i have seen in my father's presence then do what you have heard from the father answered and said to him o father is abraham jesus said to them if you were abraham's children you would be doing the works of abraham but now you are trying to kill me man who has told you the truth that i heard from g abraham did not do this you are doing the works of your father so they said to him we are not born of fornication we have one father god jesus said to them if god were your father you would love me for i came from god and i'm here i did not come on my own but he sent me the gospel of the lord as as we get closer to the end of next week the the summit of the opposition to jesus we hear more and more people putting themselves in front of him and rejecting him denying him just like in today's holy gospel that we have people who were listening to him people who heard the words that he had that were so different in so powerful and so attractive to bring them closer to god were standing there basically saying well we don't want you here we want you dead we want you out of here and the gospels are very clear and very succinct in saying that there's two there is a great opposition here and the opposition got stronger and stronger and we'll hear more and more as we get closer to two good friday on sunday palm sunday will listen to the passion read to us talking about everything that happened on that on that terrible day that special day but today we just are learning a little bit more keeping our ears open and understanding that the reason that jesus was crucified there are two reasons that it was part of god's plan that's what we understand afterwards but it was also because of the jealousy and the hard heartedness of so many people who were opposed to him so so we keep our our eyes in our ears open to all of these things that are happening knowing because we are believers knowing that in the  in the end it will all come out about as god planned it is god has his special plan of salvation there we're not afraid to see that jesus is going to be arrested  when beaten and killed because we know that he's going going to rise of the rd day he has risen and he is with us now but listening and being part of the liturgy during these few days before good friday is a wonderful thing because we can hear and we can hear very deeply what the reason was for the opposition to jesus two thousand years ago the name of the father of the son and of the pray to the lord hear our prayer for those who work for the defense of human life those who work for peace in those who work for justice that god may bless their labors we pray to the lord  american military people who are in harm's way many places in the world especially in afghanistan that they be protected we pray to the lord and in the silence of our own hearts that each of us add our own particular intention 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 god for ever and ever listen are you lord god of all creation or through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you through to the earth in the work of human hands it will become for us the bread of life my sisters and brothers pray that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to god the almighty father when he said to sacrifice your hands  is truly right in just our duty in 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  willingly to his passion and he took bread and giving thanks broke it and gave it to his disciples saying take this all the of you and he did it with this is my body which will be given  ended and took the chalice once more giving thanks he gave it to his disciples saying take this all that you enjoying for me for this is the chalice of my blood the blood of the new an eternal covenant which will be poor and out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me therefore as we celebrate the memorial of his death and resurrection we offer you board the bread of life in the chalice of salvation giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence in minister to you  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 they also be one with him in his resurrection remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy welcome them into the evil graciously grant peace in our days that by the hope of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress as we await the blessings hope and the coming of our savior jesus christ may the mysteries we have received oh lord bring us have been the medicine that they may purge all evil from our heart and strengthen us with eternal protection through christ our lord your heads and pray for god's blessing