in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit in man peace be with you and with us welcome to morning mass here at st patrick's especially those who are with us in prayer at home on radio and television we continue  on his cross that cleansed from the stain of their sins they may perseverant holy living and be made full heirs of your promise to our lord jesus christ your son who lives in reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god forever and ever amen a reading from the book of genesis when abraham prostrated himself god spoke to my covenant with you is this you are to become the father of a host of nations no longer shall you be called abraham your name shall be abraham prime making you the father of a host of nations i will render you exceedingly fertile i will make nations of you kings shall stem from you i will maintain my covenant with you and your descendants after you throughout the ages as an everlasting pact to be your god in the god of your descendants after you i will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are now staying the whole land of canaan as a permanent possession and i will be their god god also said to abraham on your part you and your descendants after you must keep my covenant throughout the ages the word of the lord  throughout the earth his judgments prevail glory remember for he remembers for evident forever his covenant which he made binding for a one thousand generations which he entered into the lord be with you and with your spirit a reading from the holy gospel according to john glory to lord jesus said to the jews amen amen i say to whoever keeps my word will never see death so the jews said to him now we are sure that you are process abraham died as did the prophets you say whatever keeps my word will never taste death or you greater than off father abraham would die or the prophets who die who do you make yourself out to be jesus answered or find myself my glory is worth nothing but it is my father who glorifies me of home you say he is are gone you do not know him but i know him and if i should say that i do not know him i would be like you a liar but i do know him and i keep his word abraham your father retards to see my day he saw you before abraham came to be i am so they picked up stones to throw at him but jesus head and went out of the temple area the gospel o to lord jesus christ very guiding principle of life is that the only one whose approval we should really seek is that of god it is god's judgment and no one else's that really matters in the midst of the trauma of the civil war someone asked abraham lincoln do you think god is on your side and he said it would be presumptuous of me to try to figure out whose side god is on my goal is to be for myself to be on god's side so there was lincoln who got this wisdom what is more important is what god thinks what's most important is god's opinion what is normative in life is god's judgment not anybody else's jesus jesus says that in the small earnings gospel in his ongoing conversation with the jewish leaders he says i know you know like me but really all that matters to me is my heavenly father all that matters to me is the judgment of my heavenly father my for heavenly father loves me and i love him a great goal in life everybody not really do matter what other people are saying but only to to really base our life and what god says on god's judgment that seal the one that ultimately cou through your goodness we have received this wine we offer you fruit of the vine and work of human hands it will become our spiritual drink it got her laura bush pray my brothers and sisters that by sacrificing yours may be acceptable to god our almighty father may the lord accept the sacrifice of chair hands for the praise and glory of this name for our lift up your hearts we lift them up to the lord let us give thanks to the lord our god it is right and it is it is truly right and just our duty and ourselves nation always and everywhere to give you thanks large heavenly father almighty an eternal god for through the saving passion of your son the whole world has received the 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 and saints of heaven we to give you thanks as an  holiness make holy therefore these gifts we send in your spirit upon them like to do fall so that they may become for us the body and blood of our lord jesus given up for you in a 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 it for this is the chalice of my blood 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 of me therefore as we celebrate this memorial of his death and resurrection we offer you lord the bread of life and the cha of salvation giving thanks situ have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you christ who said to your apostles peace i leave you my peace i give you a look not on our sins but on the faith of your church and graciously grant her peace in unity in accordance with your will who live in r forever and ever amen the peace of the lord be with you always and with your spirit shall we offer a sign of chris by your saving gifts we besieged your mercy lord that by this same blessed sacrament with which you feed us in this present day judge you may make us partakers of life eternal through christ our lord and