of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit the grace of our lord jesus christ and the love of god and the communion of the holy are above we may marry to be sharers in her glory to christ our lor reading from the book of revelation god's temple in heaven was opened and the ark of this covenant could be seen in the temple a great sign appeared in the sky a woman close with the sun with the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve stars she was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth then another son appeared in the sky down to the earth then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth to devour her child when she gave birth she gave birth to a son a male child destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod her child was caught up to god and his throne the woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place where by god then i heard a loud voice in heaven say now have salvation and power come and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his anointed one the word of the lord thank  st fruits of those who have fallen asleep for since death came through a man the resurrection of the dead came also through man for just as in adam all die so to him christ shalt all be brought to life but each one in proper order christ the firstfruits then at his coming those who belong to christ then comes the end when he hands over the kingdom to his god and father when he has destroyed every sovereignty and every authority and power for he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his the last enemy to be destroyed is death for he subjected everything under his feet the word of the lord thank  mary set out and travelled to the hill country in haste to a town of judah where she entered the house of zechariah and greeted elizabeth when elizabeth heard mary's greedy for the infant left in her womb and elizabeth filled with the holy spirit cried out in a loud voice and said blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb and how does this happen to me that the mother of my lord should come to me for the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears the infant in my womb leaped for joy blessed are you who believes that what was spoken to you by the lord would be fulfilled and mary said my soul proclaims the greatness of the lord my spirit rejoice s in god my savior for his look with favor on his lonely servant from this day all generations will call me bless it will mighty has done great things for me and holy is his name he has mercy on those who fear him in every generation has shown the strength of his arm and his scattered the proud in their conceit is cast down the mighty from their thrones and has lifted up the lowly he has filled the hungry with good things and the rich he has sent away empty he has come to the help of his servant israel where he has remembered his promise of mercy the promise he made to our fathers to abraham and his children for ever mary remained with her about three months assumed into heaven body and soul something that was unique something that is unique and something that we remember at this mass and all of the churches of the world every every year on the  of august why did god do something like that i don't think anybody can say exactly why god did this but the the bottom line for the whole belief that we have is that the  honor that god gave to mary began when she said yes to the to the angel when he said would you become the mother of the savior she said yes for that and then everything else follows from there up till the fact that she was taken up into heaven so we thank god that mary said yes because if she had not said yes things would have been completely different in the history of the world the name of the father and of the son of the holy spirit  happiness and holding this to our family we prayed to the lord lord for those who have asked us to pray for them that god bless them and guide them we pray for the lord lord here are for american military personnel throughout the world especially in afghanistan we pray for their board lord hear our prayers for those who work for the defense of human life from its earliest moments for those who work for peace and for justice that god may bless them we pray to the lord lord here over and in the silence of our own hearts that each of us add our own particular intention we pray to the lord lord europe or 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 you is god for ever and ever amen creation through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you fruit of the earth and the work of human hands will become for us the bread of life should be got for coming to perfection and as a sign of pure hope and comfort to your children people rightly you would not allow her to see the corruption of the tomb since from her own body she was blissfully brought forth board be with you and with your spirit and almighty god bless you the father and son in the holy spirit amen message ended go forth in peace it is a great day