the communion of the holy spirit be with you all and with your spirit my sisters my brothers let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries prayer graduate church we pray almighty god that she may have st stephen of hungary who fostered her growth while the king on earth as her glorious defender in heaven your lord jesus christ your reading from the book of joshua joshua gathered together all the tribes of israel at checkers summoning their elders their leaders their judges and their officers when they stood in ranks before god joshua addressed all the people thus says the lord the god of israel in times past your fathers down to terra father of abraham and  well beyond the river and served other god but i brought your father abraham from the region beyond the river and led him through the entire land of canaan i made his descendants numerous and gave him i horsemen because they cried out to the morgue he put darkness between your people in the egyptians upon whom he brought the seeds so that it engulfed them after you witnessed what i did to egypt and well a long time in the desert i brought you into the land of the amorites who lived east of the jordan they fought against you but i delivered them into your power you took possession of their or to curse you but i would not listen to balance on the contrary he had to bless you and i saved you from him once you cross the jordan and came to jericho the men of jericho f give thanks to the lord for he is good for his mercy endures for ever give thanks to the god of gods for his mercy and yours for ever give thanks to the lord of lords for his mercy endures forever his mercy endure is forever who let his people through the wilderness for his mercy endures forever the smoke great king for his mercy and yours for ever and slew powerful king for his mercy and yours for ever his mercy and yours forever and made their land a heritage for his mercy and yours forever the heritage of israel his servants are his mercy and approached jesus and tested him saying is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatsoever he said replied have you not read that from the beginning the creator made them male and female and said for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh so there are no longer two but one flesh therefore what god has moses allowed you to divorce your wiles but from the beginning it was not so i say to you whoever divorces his wife unless the marriage is on lawful and marries another commits adultery his disciples said to him is that if that is the case of a man with his wife it is better not to marry he answered not all can accept this word but only those to whom that is granted but some are incapable of marriage because they were born so some because they were made so by others some because they have renounced marriage for the sake of the kingdom of heaven wherever can accept this or to accept it the gospel of the today's gospel is definitely the the church is understanding of the nature of marriage from the mouth of jesus himself in the permanence of marriage or less there's some awfulness in the very beginning of a marriage which is what we what we use for and moments in the in the catholic church it's a very difficult teaching because we live in a society we live in a world where divorce is not at all something that people are afraid to to do in their lives and they're much much more easily easily able to dissolve marriages and then even to form them sometimes  but jesus said is a very powerful statement for us what god has joined together men must not separate so even though it is such a strong teaching of the church we also have to remember what we heard in the response oriel some today his mercy endures forever so one of the things that we rely on is that we have personal relations with g d that when jesus told his disciples and ultimately outs they god is your father he is a father who understands our hearts understands our difficulties and wants us to continue to be his children his sons and stores brothers and sisters of jesus so even though it we may be put into difficult circumstances because of this teaching of jesus we always have to remember god's mercy is is always going to be there for everyone  even people that have not been able to follow the law that we're talking about in today's in today's gospel god's mercy doers forever is was a was a cry and a prayer in the song that the for american military personnel throughout the world especially in afghanistan we pray to the warrior lord hear our prayer for those who work for the defense of human life for the very beginnings for those who work for peace and we pray to the lord lord here are the lord our god we ask you to listen to our prayers we bring them to you in the name of jesus our brother and savior who is with you is god for ever and ever a my sisters and brothers pray that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to god the almighty father may the lord accept the sacrifice as your hands for the praise and glory of his name for our good and the good of all this holy church holy father almighty and eternal god through christ our lord for in the marvelous confessions of your saints you make your church fruitful with strings every noon and offer us sure signs of your love and that you are saving which will be poor it out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me 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 form this of charity together with fr pope and sympathy our bishop and all the clergy remember your servant and marie when you have called from this world to yourself grant that she who was united with your son in death like you may also be one with him in his resurrection remember also our brothers and sisters who are called in to sleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy welcomed them into the light of your face have mercy eternal life and they praising glorify you through your son jesus christ through him and with him and in him oh god almighty father the unity of the holy spirit or glory and honor is yours for ever