almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us the life everlasting granted through their intercession we may be strengthened in faith and constancy and spend ourselves without reserve for the unity of your church your large jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god forever and ever amen kings and for all in authority that we may leave a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion and dignity this is good and pleasing to god our savior wills everyone to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth for there is one there is also one mediator between god and men the man christ jesus who gave himself as ransom for all this was the testimony at the proper time for this i was appointed preacher and apostle i am speaking the truth i am not lying teacher of the gentiles in faith and tru be with you and with your spirit reading from the holy gospel according to luke lord in the lord when jesus had finished all his words to the people he endured the pain i'm in a century and there had a slave who was ill and about to die and he was valuable to him when he heard about jesus he sent elders of the jews to him asking him to come and save the life of his sl they approached jesus and strongly urged him to come saying he deserves to have you do this for him for he loves our nation and he built the synagogue for us and jesus went with them and when he was only a short distance from the house the century and sent friends to tell him lord do not trouble yourself for i am not worthy to have you  under my roof therefore i did not consider myself worthy to come to you but say the word and let my servant be healed for i too am a person subject to authority as soldiers subject to me and i say to one go and he goes and to another come here and he comes and to my slave do this and he does it when jesus heard this he was amazed at him and turning said to the crowd following him i tell you now even in israel have i found such fa when the messengers returned to the house they found the slaves in good health the gospel of the lord praise to lord jesus christ one common theme we hear from one another these days is a sense of disappointment and frustration with our political leaders i don't know if that's all that new as you know i'm an american historian and i think that's been somewhat characteristic throughout our history but it is stressed ration disappoint with our political leaders does seem to be heightening the stays and i wonder if the bible has any console for us well  does if you were listening to the st reading this morning saint paul writing same timothy and he simply says pray pray for those who govern you he doesn't say if you like them or if you support them i doubt it because of the type always writing political leaders were hardly sympathetic to the christians but even in spite of that he said pray for those who govern you and that's not a bad idea as we find ourselves in somewhat of a season of political discontent pray oh lord the offerings of your people and honor of the passion of your holy martyrs st carney illyas and st cyprian and may the gifts that gave them courage under persecution make us to steadfast in all works by which in our weakness you perfect your power and on the feeble but still strength to bear you witness are christ our lord and so with the powers of heaven we worship you constantly here on earth and before you holiness make holy therefore these gifts down your spirit for the like to do for so that they may become for us the body and blood of our lord jesus christ at the time he was at the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion he took bread and giving thanks prokop 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 lord the bread of life and the chalice of salvation giving thanks should she held assure the 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 bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil deliver us lord we pray f strengthened with the far to toot of your holy spirit to bear witness sever to the truth of your gospel through christ our lord man the lard be with you air seek god's blessing upon all here present at st patrick's upon all who unite with this and prayer at home on catholic satellite radio in the catholic faith network we ask you through the intercession of our lady queen of the holy martyrs and of saint