therefore i ask less of mary as a virgin 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 and bring us t everlasting li spray god whom will see your son to submit for our sake to the yoke of the cross so that you might drive from us the power of the enemy grant us his servants to attain the grace of the resurrection for our lord reading from the book of the prophet isaiah the lord god has given me a well trained tongue that i might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them morning after morning he opens my ear that i may hear and i have not rebelled have not turned back i gave my back to those who beat me my cheeks to those who plucked might be or to my face i did not shield from buffets and spitting the lord god is my help therefore i am not to scrapes i have set my face like flint knowing that actual not be put to shame he is near who upholds my right if anyone wishes to oppose me let us appear together who disputes my right let him confront me see the lord god is my help who will prove me wrong the word of the lord thanks  lord in your great love answer me lord in your great love and serve me for your sake i bear insults and shame covers my face i have become an outcast to my brothers a stranger to my mother's weak i look for sympathy but there was none for console or not one could i find rather they put all in my food and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink the lord in your great love and  say i will praise the name of god in song and i will glorify him with thanksgiving see you lowly ones and be glad you who seek god may your hearts revive for the lord hears the poor and his own who are in bonds he spurns not lord your answer me the lord be with you reading from the holy gospel according to matthew that time on the look for an opportunity to hand him over the first day of the feast of the unleavened bread the disciples approached jesus and said where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the passover he said go into the city to a certain man and tell him they teach you says my appointed time draws near in your house i shall celebrate the passover with my disciples the disciples then did as jesus had ordered and prepared the passover when it was evening he reclined a table with the twelve while they were eating he said amen i say to you one of you will be train me deeply man indeed goes as it is written of him but water that man by whom the son of man is be traded it would be better for that man if he had never been born  many years ago when holy week was a very important week in the celebration of the of the civil year of the the year that even the government would take part in not here in america because it's not part o tradition but it in europe especially today would have been called by wednesday we have passion sunday which was the palm sunday and will have holy thursday good friday and holy saturday and sunday of the resurrection but today was the day when the church and all of the people who listened to the gospel and even the government looked upon this as the day that judas finally showed his cards that  finally made this step that he was getting closer and closer to as as he got older as he got disillusioned maybe with christ as he wanted him to do something different and he didn't do it and so judas basically turned his back on him and so using the name judas for us in our own common way of speaking we know that's a horrible terrible thing to be calls and it's all because of what happened today in today's gospel he went to the chief priests what are you going to give me if i hand him over to you what are you going to give me so that you can finally have your way with finally can get rid of him because he has been such an obstacle and such a difficulty for you and that's exactly what jesus represented to the to the leaders of the people it wasn't that he was a holy man wasn't that he was a good teacher it wasn't that he was the messiah certainly not it was the difficult rabbi some gal of the who was throwing a monkey wrench into their their control over the people of israel so that they could make sure that the romans didn't cause more difficulty for them as the leaders as the religious leaders of the people so  had this great idea for them this great opportunity for them if i remember very often in the gospel it says they try to arrest him they tried to detain him they tried to put him under under guard but time after time it didn't work so here judas the spy is giving them the opportunity so thirty pieces of silver was a pretty good amount of money to put on jesus's head leaders were ready to cash the money out to give it to him and and say all right let's here's your thirty pieces of silver now produce jesus for us so that we can get rid of this difficulty and so we know as the story goes we know the rest of the story we know what happened there we know that judas at the very end of this life realized what a terrible terrible thing that he did the story goes on that he went back to the temple and he threw the thirty pieces of of silver at the mall and said i did a terrible thing and then he killed himself so it was a very sad ending to his life the only good thing too it might be that in that moment a realisation of what he had done and the his his sorrow for it and throwing back the pieces of silver maybe he received god's forgiveness we don't know but we in our heart of hearts we drama of this great sad story of what the followers of jesus were so elated with him so happy about him so so if they thought everybody thought that he was he was the messiah he was the one that god promised and so to see what happens beginning today with huge the treachery of judas the spy and going forth to the ultimate death of the lord on the cross is something that should touch our our ourselves our stomachs our hearts our eyes maybe just to say that human nature can be so  that that someone who is perfectly innocent could be destroyed at least in the opinion of the people who did it so we are walking this path that will go from now we may not go to church every day because of our jobs and everything but it's a good day to remember in our in our minds the the action of judas is the spy is the one who handed him over was there because of and was happy it was happily received by the leaders because they were jealous of jesus so today is a day to think about how good we should be and how bad the others were doesn't make us better people but it gives us the insight that we need to  good men and women and followers of jesus the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit and then this pray we pray for our holy father pope francis and our shepherd cardinal dolan god bless them  guide them we prayed to the lord lord here where we pray for the the  happiness of tom and patti on this mass and celebrating today may god bless them and guide them we pray to the lord lord here on prayer we pray for ourselves that we never turn treacherous to anyone in our lives as judas did on this day we prayed to the borg lord hear our prayer pray for american personnel and military personnel throughout the world especially in harm's way in afghanistan we prayed to the lord lord hear our prayer for vocations to the priesthood to religious life the leadership in our catholic church into the jackanapes god may raise generous holy and happy men and women to serve him in purity of part we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for those who work for the defense if human life those who work for peace and for justice and god may bless their labors we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for those who have been sexually abused violated or harris god's loving and healing hand may touch their lives we pray to the lord lord here for and in the silence of our own hearts let each of us had our own particular intention we prayed to the lord lord here at prayer the lord our god we ask you to listen to our prayers we read them to you in the name of our brother and savior the lord jesus who is with you is god for ever and ever amen your goodness we have received the bread we offer you fruit of the earth in the work of human hands who will become for us the bread of life blessed to be god forever all my sins my sisters and brothers pray that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to god the almighty father made a lot except the sacrifice your hands the praising glory of his name for the lord be with him and with your spirit lift up your heart lift him up to the lord let us give thanks to the lord our god is right and just that is truly right in just our duty in our salvation overweighs and everywhere to give you th life and they praising glorify you for your son jesus christ to him and with him it in him oh god almighty father and the unity of the holy spirit or  we may be always free from sin and safe from all the stress as we await the blessings hope in the coming of our savior jesus christ for the healing of the power and the glory of yours now and forever lord jesus christ to set your apostles peace and leave you my peace i give him look not on our sins but on the faith of your church and graciously grantor peace and unity in accordance with your will to live it reign for ever dallas almighty god with a firm conviction that through your son's death in time to which the really weird mysteries bear witness we may be assured of perpetual light through christ ou their rebirth they may be led by linton works to newness of life to christ our lord amen the lord be with you and with your spirit god bless you the father and son in the