our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate this sacred myster lord my god i said my god i am too ashamed and confounded to raise my face to you oh my god for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads and our guilt reaches up to heaven from the time of our fathers even to this day great has been our guilt and for our wicked deeds we have been delivered up we and our kings and our priests to the will of the kings of foreign lands to the sword to captivity to pillage and to disgrace as in the case today and now but a short time ago mercy came to us from the lord our god who left us a remnant and gave us a stake in his holy place thus our god has brightened our eyes and given us release in our servitude for slaves we are but in our servitude our god has not abandoned us rather  turned the goodwill of the kings of persia toward us thus he has given us a new life to raise again the house of our god and restore its ruins and has granted us he scourges and then has mercy he cast down to the depths of the another world and he brings up from the great abyss no one can escape his hand let's let it be god lives forever praise him you children of israel for the gentiles for though we have scattered you among them yes shown you his greatness even there this must be god lives forever the lord be with you reading from the holy gospel according to  jesus summon the twelve and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases the sentence to proclaim the kingdom of god is to heal the sick he said to them take nothing for the journey you leave that town shake the dust from your feet and testimony against them and they set out and went from village to village proclaiming the good news and curing diseases everywhere the gospel of the in today's gospel we hear these apostles being given their their marching orders and it's a matter of speaking and if someone said to us any of us well i want you to just leave here and go and visit different people and just rely on the goodness of strangers and don't carry money or food or extra clothing or something like that we would kind of look at them and say this make any sense at all it's not something that we as modern men and women would even countenance as something that would be a good thing to do and yet here it will force obviously the society  differ in the style of living this style of welcome would all be different but what jesus was saying is very similar to what he could say to us rely on the goodness of god in the goodness of other people now the way the world is today and way crime is in terrorism and all of the things that make our complicated world so dangerous in many ways it would be very hard for us to be able to to do any of that but the important thing is that people still are welcoming people still are generous people still are loving even of strangers and so were jesus is saying to the people two thousand years ago he's not saying exactly the same thing to us but he is saying to us look for the goodness in other people look for the hospitality in other people look for things said we recognize in ourselves and understand that other people also share of the goodness that's in our hearts people that are not like us people that had different ways of living their lives are still children of god is still blessed by the lord we because of the way things are in the world we kind of look askance at people that are different to what the lord is saying to us remember that still even though people are different they're still children of my same heavenly father is still in the sense brothers and sisters to you we have to be careful because there are people that aren't so good that's why we have all of the  security all around the cathedral in or around new york today because of the u n but we also have to cannot just take away from our understanding that people generally have goodness in their hearts we should look for that united nations that is being so highly highlighted here and now in new york city that god gives the delegates and the the work of the u n strength we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for our military personnel throughout the world especially in harm's way in afghanistan we pray for the board lord hear our prayer for those who work for the defense of human life or materially as moments those who work for peace and for justice th god bless them and guide them we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer and in the silence of our own hearts that each of us add our own particular intention let's sit over you lord god of all creation through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you fruit of the earth and the work of human hands who will become for us the bread of life us a big god forever creation for through your goodness we have received the wine we offer you through the binding work of human hands it will become our spiritual drink less of a god forever pour out on us oh lord your holy spirit whom you poured in abundance upon the apostles that we may recognize what you have given us through them and duly offered the sacrifice and praise to your glory sign of your holiness on earth and offer all humanity your head's in the teachings there for now and for ages and ending with all the hosts of angels we sing to you with all our hearts crying out as we christ we may be gathered into one by the holy spirit remember lloyd your church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness and charity together with fr all the thirteen remember your servants marie in twenty you have called from this world to yourself granted they who are united with your son and death like is may also be one with him in his resurrection remember also our brothers and sisters who have folded in sleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy welcome them into the light of your face and forever lord jesus christ who said here apostles he said leave you my peace they give you look not on our sins but on the faith of your church and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance with bless the lord my soul number six for five