and to prepare ourselves for this celebration we acknowledge before one another and before the lord all of our say you were sent to heal the contrite of heart lord have mercy lord have mercy you came to call centers christ have mercy christ have mercy you are seated at the right hand of the father to intercede for us 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 in the ways of your commands 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  a reading from the book of genesis judah approach joseph and said i beg you my lord let your servant speak earnestly to my lord and do not become angry with your servant for you are the equal of pharaoh my lord asked your servants have you a father or another brother so we said to my lord we have an aged father and a young brother the child of his old age this one's full brother is dead and since he is the only one by that mother who has left his father dotes on him then you told your servants bring him down to that my eyes may look on him unless your youngest brother comes back with you you shall shall not come into my presence again when we returned to your servant our father we reported to him the words of my lord later our father told us to come back and buy some food for the family so we reminded him we cannot go down there only if our youngest brother is with us can we go for we may not see the man if our youngest brother is not with us then your servant our father said to us as you know my wife or me two sons one of them however disappeared and i had to conclude that he must have been torn to pieces by wild beasts i have not seen him since if you now take this one away from me too and some disaster be false him you will send my white head down to the netherworld to greet joseph could no longer control himself in the presence of all his attendants so he cried out have every one withdraw from me thus no one else was about when he made himself known to his brothers but his sobs was so loud that the egyptians heard him and so the news reach pharaoh's palace i am joseph he said to his brothers is my father still in good health but his brothers could give him no answer so dumbfounded were they at him come closer to me he told his brothers when they had done so he said i am your brother joseph whom you once sold into egypt but now do not be distressed and do not reproach reproach yourselves for having sold me here when the lord called down a famine on the land and ruined the crop that sustained them he sent the man before them joseph sold as a slave remember it was the lord has done they had weighed him down but fetters and he was bound with chains till his prediction came to pass and the word of the lord proved him true remember the marvels of the word has done the king sent and released him the ruler of the peoples set him free he made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions remember the  the lord be with you use a relief from the holy gospel according to matthew lord jesus said to his apostles as you go make this proclamation the kingdom of heaven is it hand  the sick raise the dead cleanse the lepers drive out demons without cost you have received without cost you are to give do not take gold or silver or copper for your belts no sack for the journey or a  nd tunic or sandals or a walking stick the laborer deserves his keep whatever town or village you enter look for a worthy person in it and stay there until you leave as you enter a house w peace if the house is worthy let your peace come upon if not your peace but your peace return to your whoever will not receive you or listen to your words go outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet amen i say to you it will be more tolerable for the land of sodom and gomorrah on that day of judgment and for that town the gospel  the gospel today opens with a pretty clear directive from the lord jesus said to the apostles as you go make this proclamation so i think we realize that wherever we are whether it's in this cathedral or in a parish church or maybe it's people listening in their car on the radio or even out walking or jogging listening to this broadcast of the holy man wherever we go the proclamation of the gospel is announced and we we hear it and sometimes we hear it very very clearly so over the last number of days we've been listening to the st reading from the old testament book of genesis and maybe we had been identifying with the terrible struggle that seems to be part of the experience of joseph and his brothers especially in that st reading i know that we could identify with the struggle of the people that are described in the gospel story where jesus said sure the nd raise the dead cleanse the leper drive down the demons these are difficulties that people live with you and i in varying degrees that sometimes cause us maybe to doubt our our relationship with god but yet maybe we've learned that from the book of genesis all the way through the gospel into our own lives that that we are engaged so often in a struggle and it is all through salvation history and i think particularly significant as i was reading scripture today preparing to come to me as was that conflict that existed within the family of joseph we had a little inkling of it yesterday joseph in conflict with his brothers sometimes that could be the most difficult when we're not in the right order with those who are closest to us those people whom we love more than anything and sometimes those those fractured experiences cause us to have a broken heart you know it might be brother against brother against children sometimes husband against wife there's that sense so often that not only conflict but maybe the trail maybe some kind of selfishness and it really fractures the wholeness of what we're meant to be so in the experience in the st reading in the book of genesis sometimes we can identify with being hurt by somebody else sometimes we can identify with hurting other people and maybe like the characters in the old testament we're not willing to take a risk anymore because we've been hurt so deeply so there's a lot of human emotion in scripture today both in the old and the new testament but the encouraging word which comes from the proclamation of the gospel always is that as difficult as it is and as easy as it is to say we need to be able to trust in the lord when we are vulnerable we are weak when we find ourselves in that kind of an experience sometimes those are the times when we actually live the signs of the kingdom of god right here in our my brothers and sisters trusting that god provides for us at all times let us present to him our needs for all the clergy and religious by god may they constantly be renewed and strengthened in their discipleship let us pray to the lord for leaders throughout the world that they will allow their people the freedom to discover and live out their purpose let us pray to the lord for all people who seek a purpose in life that they will receive the guide use and the support that they need let us pray to the lord for our local churches and civic welcomed into the joy of god's presence let us pray to the lord heavenly father accept the prayers that we offer you helping to guide and nourish us on our journey of lord upon these offerings which we make in honor of st benedict and grant that by following his example in seeking you we may merit the gifts of unity in your service and of peace through christ our lord and the lord be with you with your spirit and lift up your hardest to give them up to the lord let us give thanks to the lord our god it is right and just it is truly right and just our duty and our salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks lord holy father almighty and eternal god for in the saying so 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 nature back to its original holiness and bring it to experience on this search the gifts you promise in the new world to come and so with all the angels and saints we praise you as without and we  you are indeed holy ole lord the fount of whole holding us make holy therefore these gifts we pray by setting down your spirit upon them like they do fall 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 into his passion 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 a similar way when supper was and 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 memorial of his death and 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 francis our po timothy our cardinal archbishop his brother bishops and go 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 your mercy at the saviour's command informed by divine teaching we dare to say our father who are to have ha 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 distress as we await the blessid hope and the coming of our savior through christ our lord amen the lord be with you and with your spirit may almighty god bless you the father the son and the holy spirit amen the masses indeed go forth in peace