will therefore i ask less said mary after virtually all the angels and saints and you my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the lord our god the almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins for my idea for a living god grant us soldiers celebrate the mysteries of the lord's passion that we may marry to receive your pardon for our lord jesus christ through son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god for ever and ever a reading from the book of the prophet isaiah hear me oh islands listen no distant peoples the lord called me from birth from my mother's womb he gave me my name he meat of me a sharp edged sword concealed me in the shadow of his arms he made me a polished arrow and his quiver he hid me you are my servant he said to me israel through whom i show my glory though i thought i had toiled in vain and for nothing uselessly spent my strength yet my reward is with the lord my recompense is with my god for now the lord has spoken who formed me as a servant from the womb that jacob may be brought back to him and israel gathered to him and i am a glorious in the sight of the lord and my god is now my strength it is too little he says for you to be my servants to raise up the tribes of jacob and restore the survivors of israel i will make you a light of the nations that myself ation may reach to the ends of the earth the word of the lord i will sing of your salvation in you a lord i take refuge let me never be put to shame in your justice rescue me and deliver me incline your year to me and save me i will sing of yourself and be my rock of refuge a strong i proclaim your wondrous deeds i will sing of yourself the lord be with you reading from the holy gospel according to john reclining a table with his disciples jesus was deeply troubled and testified he many men i say to you one of you will be training the disciples looked at one another at a loss as to whom he meant one of his disciples the one whom jesus loved was reclining the jesus aside simon peter nodded to him to find out whom he meant and leaned back against jesus's chest and said to him after judas took the morsel satan entered him so jesus said to him what you are going to do do quickly now none of those reclining a table realize why he said this to him some thought when he had loved jesus said now is the son of man glorified in god is glorified in him if god is glorified in him god will also glorify him in him self and he will glorify him at once my children i will be with you only a little while longer he will look for me and as i told the jews where i go you can i come so now i say to you where i am going you can i follow me now though you will follow later peter said to him master why can i not follow you now i will lay down my life for you jesus answered william lay down your life for me man and then i said to you the cock will not crow before you deny me three times the gospel of the lord we all know it's going to happen and today three days we all know what's going to be the reality of what happened at that faithful week so many centuries ago that we every year at this time during holy week we all know that the victory will be that of the high priests that are the pharisees that of the romans and they will have the victory over this poor rabbi from galilee but we also know that that's only part of the story the rest of the story is what we what has made us what we are the believing people of god in the resu archdiocese will be are all invited to come and make a an annual commitment of their lives once again to to the church and to their promise of celibacy as part of who they are as it's a very powerful and strong statement of what our faith is all about as catholics and why our vocation is for those who are priests so it's at four o'clock today everybody who would like to come would be very welcome to come to this special mass we do this as every diocese in the world does for a very practical reason to consecrate the the oils that will be used and also a very symbolic way to show the world the commitment of its priests to the service of the church on thursday when we have the washing of the feet the priests are reminded of their vocation yourselves so between now and easter please remember your priest especially in your prayers the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit and that is pray pray to the lord for the priests of the archdiocese of new york that god may bless them and give them strength in living out their vocations in service to their people we pray to the lord for look favorably on board we pray on these offerings of your family and to those you make partakers of these sacred gifts granted share in their fullness through christ our borders the lord be with you lift up your hearts that is give thanks to the lord our god it is truly right in they call me therefore these gifts me praise by sending down your spirit upon them like they do for so that they may become for us the body and blood of our lord jesus christ at the time he was betrayed and entered willingly to his passion he took grid and giving thanks procreating gave it to his disciples saying take this all of you and eat of it for this is my body which will be given out for you which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sin do this memory of me 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 kingdom come thy will be done on earth as citizen heaven give us and stay our jenny bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation deliver us from evil deliver us lord we pray from every evil graciously grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all this stress i give you look not on our sins but on the state of your church and graciously grantor in peace in unity in accordance with your will to live and reign for ever and ever the peace of the lord  with you always that it's all for each other the sign of the people that are subject to you from all seduction of former ways make him capable of new holiness through christ our lord the lord be with you  bless you father signed the holy spirit go in peace