in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen grace to un peace from god our father and the lord jesus christ and with your experience welcome everybody to st patrick's cathedral as we have observed the sanctity and holiness of work of labor as we work for our eternal reward in heaven we remember our sins now and pray for the mercy of god oh god creator of all things who have commanded the human race to bear the burden of labor grant that the work we are beginning may bring progress in this life and by your favor advance the spread of the kingdom of christ who lives and reigns with you when the unity of the holy spirit one god forever and ever amen a reading from the book of genesis god send let us make man in our image after our likeness let them have a dominion over the fish of the sea the birds of the air and the cattle and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground god created man in his image in the divine image he created him male and female he created them god bless them saying be fertile and multiply fill the earth and subdue it have dominion over the the sea the birds of the air and all the living things that move on the earth god also said the sea i give you every seed bearing plant all over the ear and every tree that has seized bearing fruit on it to be your food and to all the animals of the land all the birds of the air and all the living creatures that crawl in the ground i give all the green plants for food and so what happened god looked at everything he had made and he found it very good evening came and morning followed th day thus the heavens and the earth and all their ray were completed since on the th day god was finished with the work he had been doing he rested on the th day from all the work he had undertaken so god blessed the th day and made it holy because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation the word of the lord lord give success to the work of our hands lord give success to the work of our hands before the mountains were be gotten and the earth and the world were brought forth from everlasting to everlasting your god lord give success to the work of our hands you turn men back to dust saying return of the children of men for a one thousand years in your sight are as yesterday now that is past or as a watch of the night you make an end of them in their sleep lord give success to the work of our hands teach us to number our days are right that we may gain wisdom of heart return oh lord how long have pity on our servants lord give success to the work of our hands fill us at daybreak with your kindness that we may shout for the lord be with you from the holy gospel according to the jesus came to nazareth where he had grown up and went according to his custom into the sabbath day he stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet isaiah he enrolled the scroll and found the passage where it is written the spirit of the lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor he has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind to let the oppressed go free and to proclaim i e are acceptable to the lord rolling up the scroll he handed it back to the attendant and sat down and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him he said to them today this scripture passages fulfilled in your hearing and all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth they also asked is this not the son of joseph he said to them surely you will quote proverb physician heal yourself and say do here in your native place the things that we heard were done and copartner and he said amen i say to you no prophet is accepted in his own native place indeed i tell you there were many widows in israel in the days of alive when the sky was land of sidon again there were many lepers it is royale at the time of the leash of the prophet yet not one of them was cleansed but only name on the serious when the people in the synagogue heard this they were filled with fury they rose up drove him out of the town and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built to herald him down headlong but he passed through their mitts and went away the gospel of the lord i know that today is the celebration of labor day i'm afraid i might have confused you if you had a little worship aid with you and we have a separate set of readings that is an option to proclaim today eileen read from the book of genesis which is part of that but there's something about the continuous reading that we have every day and today is the beginning of the reading from the gospel of luke which you and i are going to hear every day from now until advent so the continuous reading i see such importance and that i wanted to proclaim that today and just make a comment on it jesus returning to his hometown among the people who knew him the best he approached them he came to them as a person who was absolutely sure of what his mission was meant to be having been away from them and in touch with the father he knew exactly what the father wanted and he knew that the target of his ministry meant was meant to be the marginalized people of his day the poor and the captive in the blind and the oppressed and all those who live just outside of society we also know that he was going to be met with rejection and even in this morning's gospel we could see how the people who are most familiar to him were at st a standard by his wisdom and his teachings but after a while came rejection and he was abandoned it but through all of that he always took time to be alone and to pray he always spent time and connection and in communion with his father in heaven and that relationship which we listen to today is going to be the foundation of his life mission that we're going to hear proclaimed every day in the gospel of us pray my brothers and sisters as we turn to god in prayer and offer these petitions for all the members of the church that they will grow in their appreciation of the gift of salvation which they have received as a result of the sacrifice of jesus let us pray to the lord for all those who labor for a living that they may be compensated fairly and treated with dignity let pray to the lord for all those who are unemployed that they will trust god to help them through their challenges let us pray to the lord for all of us in this faith community that we will see our occupations as vehicles for helping to build up the kingdom of god on earth let us pray to the lord and for our brother in christ romona and for all those who have died in  that they will rise with him one day and live forever in the kingdom of heaven let us pray to the lord almighty god we ask that you hear our prayers and grant or petitions through christ our brothers and sisters pray that my sacrifice and yours will be acceptable to god that the almighty father made the lord excess the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name for our good in the good of all his holy church of god who when the offerings presented here nourish the human race with food and renu it with your sacrament grant we pray that the sustenance they provide may not fail us in body or in spirit through christ our lord amen the lord be with you and with your spirit lift up your hearts we lift them up to the lord let us give thanks to the lord our god it is right and john it is truly right  just our duty and our salvation always and everywhere give you say lord holy father almighty an eternal god for you laid the foundation of the world and have a range the changing of times and seasons you forgot man in your own image and sexuality over the whole world in all its wonders to roll in your name over wall you have made and forever praise you the the the of our lord jesus christ at the time he was betrayed and entered 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 celebrate the memorial of his death and resurrection we offering you a lord the bread of life and the chalice of salvation giving thanks that you have held 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 bring her into the fold lists of charit