father and of the son and of the holy spirit graceful you and peace from god our father and the lord jesus christ my brothers and sisters let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries lord jesus you healed the sick lord have mercy lord have mercy lord jesus you forgave sinners christ have mercy christ have mercy lord jesus you gave yourself to us to heal us and bring a str lord have mercy lord have mercy may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life and then let us pray oh god who made the bishop saint norbert a servant of your church outstanding in his prayer and pastoral zeal grant we ask that by the help of his intercession the may always find shepherds after your own heart and be fed on the past years of salvation 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 and then a reading from the acts the apostles wishing to determine the truth about why paul was being accused by the jews the commander freed him and ordered chief priests and the whole send he driven to conven then he brought paul down and made him stand before them paul was aware that some were said to she's and some ferrets so we called out before the sanhedrin my brothers i am a the son of ferrous i am on trial for hope in the resurrection of that when he said this the dispute broke out between the pharisees and the said to seize and the group became divided for the said she sees said that there is no resurrection or angels or spirits while the pharisees acknowledge all three a great uproar occurred and some scribes belonging to the pharisee party stood up and sharply argued we find nothing wrong with this man suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him the dispute was so serious that the commander afraid the paul would be torn to pieces by them ordered his troops to go down and rescue paul from their midst and take him into the compound the following lord stood by him and said take courage for just as you have borne witness to my cause in jerusalem so you must also bear witness in rome the my home therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices my body to abides in confidence because you will not abandon my soul to the nether world nor will you oh the lord be with you are ready for the holy gospel according to john lifting up his eyes to heaven jesus prayed saying i pray not only for these but also for those who will be leaving through their word so that they may all be one as you father are in me and i in you but they also may be in us but the world may believe that you sent me and i have given them the glory you gave me so that they may be one as we are one i in them and you in me that they may be brought to perfection as one but the world may know that you sent to me and that you love them even as you loved me father they are your gift to me i wish that where i am they also may be with me that they may see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the foundation of the world righteous father the world also does not know you but i know you and they know that you sent me i made known to them your name and i will make it known but the love with which you love to me may be in them and i  the gospel of the lord searching for ways to offer the best kind of a prayer sometimes i will go to the internet and look for some structured kind of a model sometimes maybe still go to the library or a bookstore to see what is written about the notion of prayer how do we pray the right way and will probably find that there are as many books written on prayer as any other subject but yet when we were children the prayer that we learned was well memorized it was all rote and from childhood to this day we could reciting all those prayers that we learned just kids but in the gospel story this morning we have an opportunity to see jesus give us another model of prayer and that's a little bit different from what we might have learned the memorization of a prayer like the our father and the hail mary all important to us all necessary in our devotion but a little bit different so all week in john's gospel we've been eavesdropping as jesus and turned into a very personal type of prayer with his father at the last supper table before his suffering and death his burial and ultimately his resurrection and you will be reminded again as you as you heard the words of this morning's gospel how personal and how deep it was with the father and how filled with love it was a very simple prayer that came from his heart sometimes when we search for the best ways to pray memorized prayer is a good way but very often the simple prayer that comes from our heart is one that's most effective not only for us but for the people for whom we pray my brothers and sisters prayer brings us closer to god and closer to one another and so with caring hearts we turn to our father now and offer these prayers of petition for the catholic church that it will continue to model christ always acting with care and respect let us pray to the lord for the leaders of nations that they will work to end the wars and violence and injustice that keep the human family from recognizing their common dignity let us pray to the lord that through the efforts of all who suffer from loneliness or lack of connection they will be filled with peace of mind and heart let us pray to the lord for each of us here today that we will grow more prayerful and deepen our relationship with god let us pray to the lord for our sister in christ mary catherine and for all those who have die that with all the angels and saints they will live with god in heaven let us pray to the lord loving god we offer thanks for the gift of your son's presence in our lives and ask that you hear our prayers and guide our hearts as we offer them through christ  salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks lord holy father almighty and eternal god through our lord jesus christ for after his resurrection he plainly appeared to hold his disciples and was tak may become for us the body and blood of our lord jesus christ at the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion and he took bread and giving thanks broke it and gave it to his disciples saying take this all of you and eat of it for this is my body which will be given up for you in a similar way when supper was sent he took the chalice and once more giving thanks he gave it to his disciples saying take this all of you and drink from it for this is the chalice of my resurrection we offer you lord the bread of life and the chalice of salvation giving thanks that you 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 church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness of charity together with franc our poll timothy our cardinal archbishop his brother bishops and all the clergy remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in 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 distress as we await the blessing hope and the coming of our savior jesus christ is the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and for ever lord jesus christ who said to your apostles peace i leave you my peace i give you look not on our sins but on the faith of your church behold the lamb of god behold him who takes away the sins of the world bless it or those who are called to the supper of the lamb or to him no worthy that you should enter under my roof but only say the word in my renewed by the sacred mysteries we humbly pray all lloyd that following the example of blessid norbert we may strive to profess what he believed and to practice what he thought through christ our lord amen the lord be with you and with your spirit and may almighty god bless you the father the son and the holy spirit amen the masses ended go forth in peace