male mighty god of mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to life everlasting amen farm to his image we may merit a share in eternal redemption through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god forever and ever a a reading from the nd letter of st paul to the corinthians we want you to know brothers and sisters of the grace of god that has been given to the churches of macedonia for in a severe test of affliction the abundance of their joy and their profound poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part for according to their means i can testify and beyond their means spontaneously they begged us to insistently for the favor of taking part in the service to the holy ones and this not as we expected but they gave themselves st to the lord and to us through the will of god so that we urged titus that as he had already begun he should also complete for you this gracious act also now as you excel in every respect in faith discourse knowledge all earnestness and in love we have for you may you excel in this gracious act also i say this not by way of command but to test the genuineness of your love by your concern for others for you know the gracious act of our lord jesus christ that for your sake he became poor although he was rich so that by his poverty you might become rich the word of the lord thank praise the lord my soul praise the lord my soul praise the lord my soul i will praise the lord all my life i will sing praise to my god while i live praise the lord m less of he whose whose health is the god of jacob whose hope is in the lord his guys who made heaven and earth the sea and all that is in  who keeps favor for a faith forever secures justice for the oppressed gives food to the hungry the lord sets captives free the lord give sight to the blind the lord raising those who are bowed down the lord loves the just the lord protects strangers praise the lord my so and hate your enemy but i say to you love your enemies pray for those who persecute you that you may be children of your heavenly father for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good causes ra fall on the just any unjust for if you love those who love you what recompense will you have to not the tax collectors do the same and if you greet your brothers only what is unusual about that not not long ago i had a good friend who was a bishop in nigeria very very poor who are struggling diocese nigeria what we call the missions and he was here for a visit he was here for sunday mass and i said to him all ignatius it's really good you're here this sunday because it's missions sunday this is the this is the sunday when we catholics in the united states have a nd collection to help the missions to help the poor and struggling churches like yours in africa and he looked at me and he said i know we have mission sunday in my diocese to i said wait a minute i thought you got the money he said well we do it we sure thank you but boy that doesn't relieve us from also contributing some to people who are even poorer than we are is that beautiful that's pretty much the same paul is saying this morning in the st reading he's raising money see it started way back that he's raising money for the poor the missions and who came through most macedonia and he's writing a letter he said guess guess who was most generous macedonia that is the poorest most struggling church around and they're the ones that are the most generous that happens very often proportionately it's sometimes the poor struggling who we kind of immediately think are on the receiving end who are more generous than ever you know we're coming to a thanks be to god successful conclusion of our renew and rebuild capital campaign the parish that did best not in accumulated amount but in proportion two and a half times over their goal the poorest parish lester you lord god of all creation for through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you fruit of the earth the work of human hands who will become for us the bread of life less of the god forever lester you lord god of all creation through to stay please you are sure pray my friends that by sacrificing yours may be acceptable to god our almighty father may the lord accept the sacrifice that your hands for the prais father of mercy who because of the great love with which you st loved us with untold goodness gave us your only be gotten son grant we pray the being perfectly united with his heart we may offer you  homage 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 just it is truly right in just our duty in our salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks lord heavenly father almighty an eternal god through christ our lord for raised up pyatt upon the cross he gave himself up for us with the wonderful love and poured out blood and water from this pier christ at the time he was betrayed and injured willingly into his passion he took bread and giving thing spoken and gave it to his disciples saying take this all of you indeed of it for this is my body which will be give worthy to be in your presence and minister to you humbly we pray that particular of the body and blood of christ we may be gathered into one by the holy spirit be always free from sin and safe from all the stress as we await the lesson hope in the coming of our savior jesus christ for the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever large isa's christ who said  apostles peace i leave you my peace i give you a look not on our sins but on the faith of your church and gracious a grand her peace and unity in accordance with your will who live in reign forever and ever amen the peace  peace thanks be to god