see you have given me no offspring and so no one of my servants will be and so one of my servants will be my heir then the word of the lord came to him know that one shall not be your heir your own issue shall be your ere he took him outside and said look up at the sky and count the stars if you can just so he added shall your descendants  to put his faith in the lord who credited it to him as an act of righteousness he then said to him i am the lord who brought you from or to cull dns to give you this land as a possession lord how am i to know that i shall possess it he answered him bring me a three year old half for a three year old she go three year old ram a turtle dove and the young pigeon abrams brought him all these let them into and placed each opposite the other but the birds he did not cut up birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses  pot and a flaming torch which passed between those pieces it was on that occasion that the lord made a covenant with abraham saying to your descendants i give this land from the wadi of egypt to the great lord remembers his covenant forever the lord remembers his covenant for give thanks to the lord invoke his name make known among the nations tuesday sing to him sing his praise constantly the lord remembers his cover news for you descendants of abraham his servants sons of jacob his chosen ones he the lord is our god throughout the earth his judgments prevail board remembers his covenant for ever he remembers for ever his covenant which he made binding for a one thousand generations which he entered into with abraham and by his oath to isaac the lord remembers his jesus said to his disciples where false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but underneath a ravenous wolves by their fruits you will know them  fruits you will know them the gospel of the lord we hear in this gospel reading this morning in these words it seemed to stick out to me by your fruits you will know them when we give him least we try to give you advice and so far as to follow the gospel to be faithful to jesus and to do the good works and love here on earth today i give you another piece of advice night is be careful what you post on social media and the reason i say this is a few years back some would be harvard students learned that lesson in a very hard way at least ten incoming freshman at the university basically had their admissions rescinded rescinded for joking about sexual assault for joking about the holocaust for joking about certain ethnic and racial groups on facebook a school book could be very good in some ways and in other ways it could be evil what the students did was a took part in a chat chat group to dared one another to be what they call provocative the students thought they were just being funny but the officials at harvard university thought otherwise they said their behavior brings a question about their honesty about their morality about their moral character and what happened was that harvard reserves the right to withdraw any of the offers of admission for any behavior that violates harvard's code of honor so that all perspective students know this at the time when they sign their application and send it into the school now you can imagine it was a pretty good bet that those students application for harvard were very impressive very insightful essays maybe they had stellar recommendations impressive transcripts but in a moment of hot listening by those students one student describe people doing stupid stuff all of a sudden it went into ruin it went down the drain and went into the garbage bin the reality is to use project on the outside certainly could be undermined by the claim of hope or for the actual fruit that we produce a good that we do naturally and without prompt justice and reconciliation that we work for in each and every day of our lives and in imitation of christ divine and that we are the branches students and teachers to now begin their time of rest and relaxation that god bless them in the summer and prepare them for the next two years of teaching  carousels we do everything we can to bring happiness and holiness to our family we pray to the lord lord hear our practice for american military personnel throughout the world especially those who are in harm's way in afghanistan we pray to the lord already here and in the silence of our own hearts that each of us add our own particular intention church godfather of mercies who because of the grades above with which you loved us with untold goodness gave us your only begotten son grant we pray that being perfectly united with him we may offer just our duty in our salvation old ways and everywhere to give you things board holy father almighty and eternal god through christ the lord for a supply of the cross he gave himself up for us with the wonderful love similar way when supper was ended it should teach others once more giving thanks he gave it to his disciples saying take this all with him and drink from it for this is the childless of my blood the blood of the new an eternal 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  brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy welcome then into the light of your face have mercy on the soul we pray with the blessing of virgin mary day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil to the verse lord we pray from every or