the grace of our lord jesus christ and the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit be with you all and with the atmosphere my sisters my brothers let this acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries the lord has removed the judgement against you he has turned away your enemies the king of israel the lord is in your midst you have no further misfortune to fear on that day it shall salvation among use agreed and holy one to be give thanks to the lord a claim his name among the nations make known his deeds proclaim how exalted is his name among us the great who come to me at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my years the incentive my womb leaves for joy less pseudo you who believed that what was spoken to you by the lord would be fulfilled and mary said my soul proclaims the greatness of the lord my spirit rejoices in god my seat here where he is look with favor on his lowly servant from this day all generations will call me bless the almighty has done great things for me and holy is his name his mercy and those who fear him in every generation has shown the strength of his arm his scattered the proud in their conceit is cast down the mighty from promise you made to our fathers to abraham and his children forever mary remained with her about three months and then returned to her home the gospel of the lord if you say that we celebrate today it is one that is a tremendously beautiful expression of family and family affection the story as everybody knows w elizabeth was a advanced in age she was an older woman here not the past if she had not had a child everybody looked at her and said well god must have done something to her because she's never had a baby in everybody has babies that's what people used to think so elizabeth was a person of the shunned or shamed by many others and then when god's plan to bring john the baptist's into the world was part of what happened to elizabeth in nd life everything started to change for her and this woman who had been very isolated because of her lack of a child now becomes someone that was very important at least to god i don't know if the people in the area knew how important she was going to be but certainly married to her and so when she was informed of the fact that or kinswoman cousin whatever the relationship was difficult time physically with the situation so mary's presence there was a sign of the affection that she had for her cousin the affection that she had for part of her family and she knew what she had to do  to make things good for her cousin so we the two thousand years later and certainly many of us most of us have had opportunities to to run to our families to do good things to do good deeds sometimes with because of a child coming into the world sometimes because of other reasons but it is a wonderful day to think of our own families and the opportunities we have had to do things for them in special ways and to give thanks to god for that and at the same time to remember that this is always an invitation to us to be aware of our family needs especially the family that's away from us and do what we can to help we pray for ourselves and we do everything we can to bring happiness and holiness to our families we pray to the board lord hear our prayer we pray for american military personnel throughout the world especially in harm's way in lord hear our prayer for people who have asked us to pray for them that god strengthen god's wisdom may be part of their lives and we pray to the board lord hear our prayer for those who have died especially members of our we prayed to the lord lord hear our prayer the lord our god we ask you to listen to our prayers we bring them to you in the name of jesus our brother and savior who is with you is god for ever and ever amen i know i sound a little different today because i have a terrible problem with my allergies today truly even to her its eggs you have done great things and extended your budget mercy from aged to age when you looked on the building this is your hand me you gave us through her the author of our salvation your son jesus christ oh time he was betrayed and entered willing the into his passion he took bread and giving thanks broke it and gave it to his disciples saying take his soul if you are needed they are this is my body which will be given  covenant which will be poured out for you interim many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me 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 to the fullness of charity together with source for ever and ever evil graciously grants peace in our days that by the hope of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all this stress as we await the blessings hope in the coming of our stay here jesus christ