and with your spirit my sisters my brothers let this acknowledge our cities and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries insane damien's a shining witness of love for the poorest and most abandoned granted by his intercession as faithful witness of the heart of your son jesus we too may be servants of the most needy and reading from the acts of the apostles the word of god continued to spread and grow after barnabas and saul completed their relief mission they returned to jerusalem taking with them john who is called mark lord and fasting the holy spirit said set apart from me barnabas and saul for the work to which i have called them then completing their fasting and prayer they laid hands on them and sent them off so so they sent forth by the holy spirit went down to salute and from their sale to cyprus when they arrived in salim as they proclaim the word of god in the jewish synagogues the word of the lord to god oh god let all the nations praise you who god let all the nations praise him may god have pity on us and bless us may he let his face shine upon us so may who god made all the nations praise you made the peoples praise you of god made all the people praise you may god bless us and make all the ends of the earth fear him reading from the holy gospel according to john jesus cried out and said whoever believes in me believes not only in me but also in the one who sent me and whoever sees me sees the one who sent me i came into the world as light so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness if anyone hears my words and does not observe them i do not condemn him for i do not come to condemn the world but to save the world whoever rejects me in does not accept my words has something to judge him the word that i speak it will condemn him in the last days because because i did not speak on my own but the father who sent me commanded that what to say and what to speak and i know that his commandment is eternal life so what i say i say as the father told me in the gospel of the lord i just came back yesterday afternoon from the shrine of the blessed virgin lured in france and one of the things i was struck about by the experience there were about four hundred of us from this area the east coast and we shared a lot of prayers and masses and and blessings with the americans from the federal and western association of the knights of malta was a very great  demonstration of faith one of the things that happens to most of us is that we live in a world we work we sleep in eat and drink in a place of places that really very few people are believers or really strong in what they believe in their hearts our at least they don't talk about it with the context of the marriage trying to borders so powerfully catholic and without any doubt that the people that are there were there because of their faith and their faith was very important to them it meant more to them then to to most people in the world and the in the focus of the faith of the people who were there at the board was that they were concerned with the with the ill those who were in use the word melodic those who were sick those who had terrible diseases or illnesses or in capacities in their lives and if you think about it that's one of the most important signs of what the church for the catholic people do whether it's church and as an institution but even more importantly the catholics in general one of the things that we always keep in mind was when jesus said about taking care of those who are in trouble the sick those who were abandoned by others so my experience each other because one of the most important things that we can do is take care of those who are sick in the most important things that we can do as believers is know that when we do that we don't do it just because we're nice guys just because we people in the whole world the lepers of motor cars and he did it not because he was a nice guy but because he was a believer because he was someone who understood the call of jesus to take care of the sick so you and i should remember whenever we can do what we can do for those who are who are sick those who are in difficulty because of their bodies or because of their insides what we do for them if we do it in the name of that god bless them and guide them we pray to the lord lord here a prayer for those who have taught us our faith those who have been examples to us of good christian life we pray to the lord lord he for those who work for the sick in the poor for doctors and nurses people who have dedicated themselves as caregivers to their own family members that god bless them and give them strength during their difficult moments we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for the people of lurid in friends to are so dedicated to those who come to see them that their acceptance of the poor in the sect may be very strong we pra bless it all you lord god of all creation for through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you fruit of the earth in the work of human hands you will become for us the bread of life blessed to be god forever less said are you lord god of all creation for 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 blessed to be gout for ever lord times to a claim you will board but in this time above all to lend you yet more gloriously when christ passover has been sacrificed by the ablation of his body he brought the sacrifice of all to fulfillment the reality of the cross by commending commending himself to you for our salvation showed himself the priest the altar and the lamb of sacrifice therefore overcome with your spirit upon them like they do for all so that they may become for us the body and blood of our lord jesus christ the time he was betrayed in entered willingly into his passion each of grid giving thanks broke it and which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins to this  faith therefore as we celebrate the memorial of his death and resurrection we offer you lord the bread of life childless of salvation giving thanks us held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you only 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 evil graciously grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress as we await the blessings hope and the coming of our savior jesus other the sign of peace on