in the holiness of your children may joy to her and grace all the families of the people through christ our lord  amen reading from the acts of the apostles after jesus had taken up into heaven the apostles return to jerusalem from the mount called all of that which is near jerusalem the sabbath days journey away when they entered the city they went to the upper room where they were staying peter and john and james and andrew philip and thomas bartholomew and matthew james alphaeus simon the zealot and judas son of james all these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer together with some women and mary the mother of jesus and his brother the lord be with you reading from the holy gospel according to john the whole of your son then he said to the disciples behold your mother and from that hour the disciple took her into his home after this aware that everything was now finished in order that the scriptures might be fulfilled jesus said i think there's there is a vessel filled with common wind so they put a sponge soaked in wine on the spring of his head and put it up to his of the other one who was crucified with jesus who when they came to jesus and saw that he was already dead they did not break his his lakes but one soldier thrust his lances with his side and immediately blood in water flowed out the word of the lord yesterday the church throughout the whole world celebrated the solemnity of the holy day of pentecost when the holy spirit came upon the people that were gathered together in the in the room for fear of the jews or hoping to protect themselves from the hatred of others hoping that the fate that jesus experiences death on the cross would not they would experience themselves but when the spirit of god came into them and filled them with courage and inspiration and made them in the fold in proclaiming jesus through all the people that were in jerusalem it was it changed everything today we celebrate the fact that one of the people that was there not only the us s but mary was also there we celebrate her with the title mother of the church because the church came into its existence yesterday by the inspiration of the spirit mary as the body image of what the church is all about is celebrating today the st day of foundation of the church and the beginning of the preaching of the gospel so we honor the lesage mother the mother of god with this great title of mother of the church we call her mother of jesus we call the mother god it's a day we used to tie the mother of the church because she is so important she has been so important for the last two thousand years for the history of the church so we under the blessing virgin mary to say our special prayers to voted to her whatever they are the rosary the memory the other different prayers that are part of the catholic treasury of prayers we know that she is pleading for us she's at the right hand the right side of her son asking to bless the church that we are a part of and asking god to watch over all the us so we honor her and we remember her as important not only in history but also we prayed to the lord lord for the lord of god we ask you to listen to our prayers we bring them to you in the name of jesus our brother and savior was with you as god forever and  my sisters and brothers pray that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to god the almighty father may the lord accept the sacrifice that your hands and the praise and glory of his name for our good look at about this holy church receive our offerings on board and transform them into the mystery of salvation so that by its power we may set aflame with the charity of the virgin mary mother of the church  this all that he would need of it for this is my body which will be given up for you your servant joseph whom you have called in this world to yourselves granted he who was united with your son just like his may also be one with him in his resurrection remember also our brothers and sisters will fall in the sleep in the hope the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy welcome them into the light of your face have mercy on the saul we pray there with the blessing virgin mary mother of god having received a pledge of redemption and of life we humbly pray a lot there with the blessing verjuice motherly help your church me teach all nations by proclaiming the gospel and through the grace of the outpouring of the spirit