therefore i ask less of mariette of her to all the angels and saying you my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the lord our god may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to st francis was conformed to christ in poverty and humility granted by walking in frances's footsteps we may follow your son and through joyful charity come to be united with you through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god for ever and ever shame we men of juda and citizens of jerusalem that we with our kings and rulers and priests and prophets and with our ancestors have sinned in the lord's sight and disobeyed h the lord our god and only too ready to disregard his voice and the evils and the cars that the lord enjoined upon moses his friends the time he let our ancestors forth from the land of egypt to give us the land flowing with milk and honey cling to us even today but we did not heed the voice of the lord our god and all the words of the profits from he sent us but each one of us went off three forever when your jealousy burns like fire with the glory of your name oh lord deliver us remember not against us the iniquities of the past may your compassion quickly come in your midst had been done entire inside and it would long ago have repented sitting in sackcloth and ashes but it will be more tolerable for tire and sidon at the judgment then for you heaven you will go down to the nether world whoever listens to you listens to me wherever rejects you rejects me you ever rejects me rejects the one who sent me the gospel of the lord sometimes saints are perceived in ways that they themselves never would have suspected or expected for their their own lives and i think said francis of a celebrate today is one of them you can go to many different venue and see people portraying st francis as the great lover of animals as the preacher to the to the birds as the one who was so kind to everyone that he said that we have a sister and brother and sister son and brother moon and the earth is our mother although these things said in modern times have become such good images that people want to project about st francis and all of them have  their truthfulness partial truthfulness anyway but the most important thing about st francis was that he was called by god to rebuild the church to build the churches was the was the vision that he had the the image that came into his mind for the words of god when he had this when he was praying in church and he saw this crucifix and he heard the board speaking to him and he said to him francis build my church  francis not very well educated man but that that's what he was supposed to do so he started to build a church and they the church that he began to build is still in existence there in the city for much more important way in the best sense of the word poor to point out the need of all christians to work together to build up the church to make the church a better place and so he began his friars minor  brothers who would be preachers and he wanted them to preach all the time for the people not necessarily with words but with their with their lives and their actions so the most important thing about francis was that he saw a very important job that god was giving him and he embraced it and he said we must build the church of god and so forth eight thousand nine hundred years the  franciscan brothers and sisters and priests have been going through the whole world in their in their own personal poverty trying to build two to bring the word of god to the world in which we live and that's the most important thing about francis it was a reformer and he was someone who loved the church so much that he inspired his own people it was only about two years after he died that he was proclaimed the same because people recognize that he had been called by god so today we honor him we honor him by saying to ourselves by praying for our church or certainly most of us in america today that would say that we have a way to go before we were in a good state in the church and we need to keep working to make the church better here and to remedy the faults of we prayed for the boy lord here on the whole the church of god here in america throughout the world a good people may continue to rebuild the church we pray to the board or he american military personnel throughout the world especially in afghanistan we pray to the lord the lord here are those who work for the defense of human life from its earliest moments for those who work for peace and for justice we bring them to you in the name of jesus our brother and savior who is with you as god for ever and ever bless it all you lord god of all creation for through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you created the earth and the work of human hands you will become for us the bread of life forever as we bring you these offerings so lord we pray that we may be rightly disposed for the celebration of the mystery of the cross which saint francis already embraced through christ our lord the lord give you thanks board holy father of my duty and eternal god from the saints who consecrated themselves to christ for the sake of the kingdom of heaven it is right to celebrate the wonders of your providence by which you call human call the there for these gifts we pray by sending down on them like to do for so that they may become for us the body and blood of our lord jesus christ the time he was betrayed and entered willingly to his passion each of bridges and giving thanks broke it and gave it to his disciples saying take this all if you were needed it for this is my body which will be given up for you which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me only we pray that partaking of the body and blood of 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 of charity together with fr and honor is yours for ever and ever oh at the saviour's command informed by divine teaching we dare to say we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil deliver us lord we pray from every evil graciously grant peace in our of the god the great thing