were in the 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 and with your spirit my sisters my brothers let this acknowledge our sayings and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries of mine but out of the abundance of your untold grace alone granted i may carry out worthily the ministry of the priestly office and dunder your gut governance of all things may direct the people in trust into my reading from the acts of the apostles after paul's escorts had taken him to athens they came away with instructions for silas and timothy to join him as soon as possible then paul stood up at the a athenians i see that in every respect you are very religious friends i walked around looking carefully at your shrines i even discovered an altar inscribed to an unknown god what therefore you  unknowingly worship i proclaim to you the god who made the world and all that is in it the lord of heaven and earth does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything he made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions so that people might seek god even perhaps grope for him and find him though indeed he is not far from many of us for in him we live and move and have our being as even some of your poets have said for we too are his offspring since therefore we are the offspring of god we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold silver or stone by human art and imagination god has overlooked the times of ignorance but now he demands that all people everywhere repent because he has established a day on which he will judge the world with justice thr man he has appointed and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead when they heard about resurrection of the dead some began to scott but others said we should like to hear you on this some other time and so paul left them but some did join him and became believers among them were dionysius a member of the court of the ariadne guess a woman named  earth and all peoples the princes and all the judges of the earth young men too and maidens old men and boys have been heaven and earth are full of your glory praise the name of the lord for his name alone is the lord be with you reading from the holy gospel according to john jesus says his disciples have much more to tell you but you cannot bear it now but when he comes the spirit of truth he will guide you in all truth he will not speak on his own but he will speak care declare to you the things that are coming he will glorify me because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you everything that the father has is mine for this reason i told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you the gospel of the lord priests and for the last forty eight years i've been in only three churches in the archdiocese i was in one church st catherine of general rd street i was there for twenty years and i was in the bronx at our lady of angels for seven years and then i came here in two thousand and six and hopefully i'll be here until i retire but the most important thing is that for forty eight years i was not only privileged and honored but i was blessed to be able to be a priest a serious priest a priest who took my job very true much to heart someone that was a happy priest a lot of times when priest get in trouble it turns out that if you look if you pick up the covers and you look under the covers you find that the person the man was a very unhappy man for whatever reason in his life but by and large as far as i can say these forty eight years have been very very happy years not always easy but but certainly i was doing exactly what i knew that god wanted me to do when i was  years old they told my family was going to be a priest either i was just in a big long rut and i never changed my mind or that's what god wanted but i think it's what god wanted so i am happy to be with you on this  people that are listening to us and watching a son on t v for all of these years that i've been very much happy and satisfied in knowing that the job that they do was the right thing for me and for the people that i minister to this these couple of years have been extremely difficult for so many priests and for the church and for so many people that suffered at the hands of unhappy who are coming to the end of the school year that god give them restful summers we prayed to the lorry laurent here our prayer for american military personnel throughout the world especially for those who are in harm's way in afghanistan own hearts that each of us had our own particular intention creation through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you through to the earth and the work of human hands will become for us the bread of life  listen oh you lord god of all creation but through your goodness we have received the wine we offer you fruit of the vine and work of human hands will become our spiritual drink less to be out forever we offer you the sacrifice of praise the lord for the deepening of our service to you so that what you have conferred on us unworthy as we are you may graciously bring to fulfillment through christ times to claim you will board but in this time above all to lord you yet more gloriously when christ our passover has been sacrificed he never ceases to offer himself for us  for this is my body which will be given up for you which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me minister to you humbly we pray for taking 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 remember your servants the reader for you have called from this world to yourselves granted she who was united with your son in a death like kids may also be one with him in his resurrection remember also  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 in your face have mercy on the soul we prayed that with the blessing virgin mary mother evil graciously grant peace in our days that by the hope of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all this stress as we await the blessid hope and the coming of our savior jesus christ amen the lord be with you and with your spirit you know mighty god bless you the father and the son and the holy spirit amen a mass is ended go in peace thanks be to god