the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit the grace of our lord jesus christ in the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit be with you all and with your spirit my sisters my brother saying bates you for the last time to join me in kneeling during this holy season of lent i confess to almighty god and to my brothers and sisters today i have great these sins in my thoughts and in my words in what i had done and what i failed to do through my faults through my faults through my most therefore i ask less and mariette and virgine 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 to ever ring 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 he and i have not rebelled have not turned back i gave my back to those who beat me my cheeks to those who plucked my beard my face i did not shield from buffets and spitting lord god is my help therefore i am not to scrapes i have set my face like flint knowing that i shall 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 thank lord in your great love answer me lord for a great love and sue me for your sake i bear insult and shame covers my face i have become an outcast to my brother insults has broken my heart and i am weak i look for sympathy and there was none for consoler is not one could i find rather they put goal in my food and in my you lonely ones and be glad you who seek god may your hearts revive for the lord here is the poor and his own horn bonds he spurns not lord be with you reading from the holy gospel according to matthew from he looked for an opportunity to hand him over in the st day of the feast of 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 in a certain man and tell him the teacher says my appointed time draws near in your house i shall celebrate the passover with my disciples the disciples then did is jesus had ordered and prepare the passover when it was evening he replied to table with the twelve while they were eating he said amen i say to you one of you will be trading deeply distress they began to say to him one after the other surely it is not i lord he said in reply the one who has dipped his hand into the dish with me is the one who will be trained the son of man indeed goes reply surely it is not i rabbi and he answered you have said so the gospel of the lord many years ago they used to call these days by wednesday every day in the holy week just before easter seem to acquire a name for itself we have holy thursday good friday holy saturday that we're used to but today was called in many areas by wednesday because the gospel is always the same one the gospel of judas having the evil intention is heart of turning jesus over getting paid the thirty pieces of silver and knowing that it was up to him to make jesus pay for all of the things that he said against th pharisees against the temple against the priests and against the religious authorities of his own nation in his own people judy this is a person that i don't think anybody any of us anyway would have much sympathy for him he was trusted by jesus he was loved by jesus as one of his disciples he was given the responsibility of holding the money bag to take care of the needs of the disciples and of and of the poor that they were helping out with but that money bag proved to be much more than the common treasury for all of them it became something that he wanted to hold onto himself he was tempted because of avarice and read not only to have the money bag but also to go to the high priests in the for more for himself so so we have very little sympathy for judas it wasn't sometimes people will do things that on the spur of the moment in out of anger or out of surprise or out of despair and do something terrible but judas plotted it he planned it he was waiting for the opportune moment and of course as we heard the other day in the passion and we'll hear again on good friday he found the time he kissed the lord and said hail rabbi and that was the beginning of the end as far as the high concerned of the life of this troublesome rabbi so judas iscariot is someone that we can have very little sympathy for dantes inferno he's placed in the very the most awful the worst circle of hell of everybody down there so we have to say to ourselves that when people be tray other people there is very little positive to say about that most of us would be ready to just push him in front of a car or or kick him around with jesus would never do that that's the one of the ironic things of what we're going to be celebrating these three days between now and easter the fact that even on the cross jesus for gave those who were doing the terrible things to him in his heart he had already forgiven didn't forgive himself ran off and he hanged himself as the scriptures tell us but even the worst the tray or as for is literature is concerned the worst betrayer the entire history of the world was someone the cheeses could could forgive so as we get closer to the time when we would look and see the lord and his cross we should remind ourselves of the importance of understanding th forgiveness that is part of christian life sometimes we can't forgive most people will never forgive judas iscariot sometimes we come to like a wall and the wall says i can't get beyond this wall because of this one or this one what they did but it's at least a time to think about the importance and the blessedness of being able to forgive even someone like you do says scarey name of the father and of the son of the holy spirit the man that is pray our shepherd cardinal dolan that god may bless them and guide them we pray to the glory lord hear our prayer for those who have asked us to pray for them god's loving in healing hand may touch their lives we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for those who work for the defense of human life those who work for peace and those who work for justice that god may bless their labors we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer who are our american military throughout the world especially in afghanistan the good people may come to their aid and protect them we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for the suffering people of the middle east who are christian being persecuted for their religion the people  syria the people of venezuela who are suffering terrible situations a good people may come to their aid we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer and in the silence of our own hearts that each of us add our own particular receive the lord we pray the offerings made here and graciously grant that celebrating your son's passion in mystery we may experience the grace of its effects through christ our lord amen the lord be with you and with your spirit lift up your hearts to look him up to the lord let us give thanks to the board or god it is right and just and is truly right in just star duty in our salvation always and everywhere to give you things lord holy father almighty and eternal god through christ our lord for the days of his saving passion and glorious d resurrection are approaching by which the pride of the ancient four was vanquished and the mystery of our redemption in jesus christ it's time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his fashion he took bread and giving thanks group good and gave it to his disciples saying take his soul th is my body which will be given out for you which will be poor it out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins to this memory of me therefore as we celebrate 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 the word your church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness of charity together with fr and timothy our bishop and all the clergy remember your servant brian when you have called from this world to yourself grant that he who was united with your son and in death like his may also be one with him  his resurrection remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy welcome them into the light of your face always free from sin and safe from all the stress as we await the blessid hope in the coming of our savior jesus christ came to power in the glory are yours now and for our lord jesus christ in dallas almighty god with a firm conviction three your son's death in time to reach the revered mysteries bear witness we may be assured of perpetual life through christ our lord and now your heads and mass is ended thanks be to god just remind everybody that tomorrow is holy thursday good friday holy saturday and holy thursday the only mass that we have is that at five hundred and thirty at night although we will have a nd mass