the soul of dennis courtney name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit the grace of our lord jesus christ and the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit be with you all my sisters my brothers  sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries that being right be conformed to the past the mysteries but we celebrate enjoy may protect and save us with perpetual power through christ o syria and cecilia of gentile origin greetings since we have heard that some of our number who went out without any mandate from us have upset you with their teachings and disturb your peace of mind we have with one accord decided to choose representatives and to send them to you along with our beloved barnabas and paul who have dedicated their lives to the name of our lord jesus christ so we are and so they were sent on their journey upon their arrival and then they called the assembly together and delivered the letter when the people read it they were delighted with the extra taishan the word of the lord i will give you thanks among the peoples a lord i will give you things among the peoples who lord my heart is steadfast oh god my heart is steadfast i was saying and chant praise awake on my so the lord be with you reading son the holy gospel according to jesus says who is this i pose this is my command love one another as i love you no one is greater love than this to lay down one's life for one's friends you are my friends if you do what i command you and no longer call you slaves because a slave does not know what his master is doing i have called you friends because i have told you everything i have heard from my father was not  who chose me but i could chose you in appointed you to go in there fruit that will remain so whatever you ask the father in my name he may give you this i command you love one another gospel of the lord one of the things that happens in cultures and societies is that people tend to make things more complicated if you make a rule you might as well make two rules or four rules were eight rules and sometimes we get overwhelmed or the society gets overwhelmed with rows so today we have to exactly two wonderful examples of that for ourselves to think about the st is when the st reading that we heard from the actually of the apostles when the gentiles were given the opportunity to become the believers in jesus the some of the people wanted to say all right if that happens and we have to tell you these are the rules and as far as the pharisees were working so concerned there were six hundred and thirteen commandments that every legitimate jewish person had to follow and when the gentiles were brought into the faith some of the christian jewish christians said well ok they can become part of us but they have to observe all of the rules that we do or we barnabas and the others in the apostles when they got together they realized that that's not what god wanted i didn't want them all of a sudden these people they knew nothing about the rules that moses had given to the people of israel god didn't want them to have to be observant of all of those rules and the nd one is the gospel today when jesus is saying this is my commandment hundred and thirteen and this is six hundred and fourteen or six hundred and twenty or whatever the number might have been but he said love one another that was his commandment very simple and complicated not a rule after a rule and so for the believers in jesus and the apostles and in the later believers he was very very simple we had to observe the fact that the lord called these people to love one another and to love even their enemies it's not complicated at all we live in a culture where there are a lot of rules for us certainly if you try to do your taxes there are so many rules about that but our faith says to us that we have to follow with jesus said to do not six hundred and thirteen dollars commandments ten commandments of course but also the most important commandment love god with all we have and love our neighbors as ourselves that's that was what he said in gospel that's what the apostles told the early gentile christians that's what the lord says to us that we have to love one another even the people that we don't want to love the course upon us  until natural death that god may bless their labors we pray to the board or hear our hand for american military personnel throughout the world especially in afghanistan also here in new york during fleet week  god made less our military people we prayed to the lord lord hear our prayers for those who are ill those are hospitalized especially for katherine ritchie that god give them good doctors and nurses we pray to the lord are you lord god of all creation for through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you fruit of the earth and the work of human hands will become for us the bread of life graciously sanctified these give so lord we pray and accepting the ablation of this spiritual sacrifice make of us an eternal offering to you through christ our lord and th will board but in this time above all to avoid you yet more gloriously when christ our passover has been sacrificed he never ceases to offer him self for us but defends us and never exceeds our cause the for you he is the sacrificial victim who dies no more the land one slain who lives forever therefore overcome with pascall joy every land every people exults in your covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me therefore as we celebrate the memorial of his death and resurrection we offer you lord the bread of life the chalice of salvation giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you holy we pray that partaking of the body and blood of christ we may be gathered into one by the holy spirit remember the lord your church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness and charity together with francis or 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 welcomed them into the light of your face have mercy on  the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and the lord jesus christ who said to your apostles peace i'd leave you my feet to give you look not on our sins but on the face of your church and gracious