of the holy spirit be with you all and with your spirit yesterday we heard the power ball of the good samaritan and over the weekend throughout parts of our city we saw the power will come grant we pray almighty god that just as we celebrate the heavenly birthday of the bishop st bonaventure we made constantly benefit from his great learning and constantly imitate the ardor of his charity  jesus christ your son who lives in range with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god eight forever and ever a of accidents a new king who knew nothing of joseph came to power in egypt he said to his subjects look how numerous and powerful the people of the children of israel are growing more so than we ourselves come let us deal shrewdly with them to stop their increase otherwise in time of war they too may join our enemies to fight against us and so to leave our country accordingly taskmasters were sent over the children of israel to oppress them with forced labor thus they had to build for pharaoh the supply cities yep the more they were oppressed the more they multiplied and spread the egyptians then dreaded the children of israel and reduced them to cruel slavery making life better for them with hard work and mortar and brick and all kinds of field work the whole cruel fate of slaves pharaoh then commanded all his subjects throw into the river every boy that is born to the hebrews but you may let all the girls live the word of the lord are helpless in the name of the lord help us in the name of them had not the lord been with us let israel say had not the mord been with us when men and rose up against us then would they have swallowed us alive when their fury was inflamed against us our hell is in the name of the more than with the waters have overwhelmed the torrent would have swept over us over us then we would have swept the great thing waters last would be the lord who did not leave us to pray to their teeth our house is in the name and we were jesus said to his apostles do not think that i have come to bring peace upon the earth i have come to bring not peace but the sword fry of come to set a man against his father a daughter against her mother and a daughter in law against her mother in law and once an amazing will be those of his own household whoever loves the father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of receives may and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me whoever receives a profit because he is a profit will receive a profits reward and whoever receives a righteous man because he is wri will receive a righteous man's reward and whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple a man i say to you he will surely not lose his reward jesus finished giving these commands to his twelve disciples he went away from that place to teach and to preach in their towns the gospel of the lord when papal leggett's arrived to present him with his red hat and insignia of office he kept them waiting while he finished washing the dishes but that was a good a good story there there is a sense of service and you military it's always good to be reminded of those virtues those virtues that attracted me back when two other short reflections  he was in conversations with a young man and the young man said i would feel like such a hypocrite going to mass being who i am and archbishop sheen said to him there's always room for one more and the last story is about a priest who just celebrated his th anniversary ordination and he was asked to give it was only he and another classmate and they gave reflections and this this man his reflection was on a someone who came to his seminary and he was designated as the man to go pick him up at the train station and when he got there he wasn't sure who he was by the looked over and he saw this man and a priest outfit handing his coat to a homeless guy and he went over then they introduce himself and that was the impetus for his own service he said he was so impressed that this this priest who later become a bishop would would part with his coat and he encouraged him to change seminaries and draw and go in a different way but he still decided to become a priest these three examples of priestly virtue they make me proud and inspire me in my pastoral ministry in my faith and in my life asking god to be gracious to us we ask for the example of bonaventure that we might be inspired in our own life of faith we prayed to the lord lord hear our prayer we pray for the victims that well ther actually were didn't seem to be many victims of the barry hurricane didn't turn out to be as bad as was expected we thank god for reaching out his healing and helping hands who people in need we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for whatever particular prayers or tensions are in your own hearts this  through christ our lord for as on the festival of st bonaventure you bid your church rejoice so to you strengthen her by the example of his holy life teacher by his words of preaching and keep her safe an answer to the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion he took bread and giving thanks kreuk it and gave it to his disciples saying take this all of you and eat of it for this is my body which will be given up and all the saints who have please you throughout the ages we may merit to be co wares to eternal life and make praising glorify you for your son jesus christ through him and with him and in him oh god almighty father in the unity of the holy spirit all glory and honor is yours for ever and  every evil graciously grant peace in our days by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all the stress as we await the blessing of hope in the coming of our savior jesus christ for the kingdom the power and the renewed by the sacred mysteries we humbly pray own lord that following the sample of placid bonaventure we may strive to profess what he believes that to practice what he taught through christ our lord amen the lord be with you