ur the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen 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 legislate knowledge our have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us through ever plays wonderful eloquence and his experience of suffering gratis we pray that instructed by his teachings we may be strengthened through the example of his invincible patients who chri a reading from the beginning of the st letter of st paul to timothy paul an apostle of christ jesus by command of god our savior and of christ jesus our hope to timothy my true child in faith grace mercy and peace from god the father and christ jesus our lord am grateful to him who has strengthened me christ jesus our lord because he considered me trustworthy in appointing me to the ministry i was once a blasphemer and a persecut an arrogant man but i have been mercifully treated because i acted out of ignorance in my unbelief indeed the grace of our lord has been abundant along with the faith and love that are in christ jesus the word of the lord thanks be to god you are my inheritance oh lord you are my inheritance so bored me oh god for in you i take refuge i say to the lord my lord are you a lord my allotted portion in my cup you it is who hold fast my of yours i bless the lord who counsels me even in the night my heart exhorts me i set the lord ever before me with him at my right hand i every disciple will be like the teacher what do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye but do not receive the wooden beam in your own how can you say to your brother brother let me remove that splinter in your eye gospel of the lord saying then look at the splinter in the other person's eye you say well obviously this is not going to work because this here the beam part is so obviously against which had to look at themselves and their what they were doing according to the law according to their relationship with god and take care of that before they became teacher or model or someone that would be guiding someone else the whole question about two blind people guiding each other is the same basic idea so i think what the lord is saying to you and to me today is that we have to look at ourselves very very honestly in how we're living what god wants us to live where accomplishing whatever it is in life that would be the accomplishments of our vocation whether we're doing what we know god has to do and that's what we should look at very before we look at others it's easy to look at others and so i this one should be doing this and that one should be doing that and that one over there should be doing something else but if we don't take care of ourselves in our own relationship with god all of that stuff is just are just words because god knows that we have to make ourselves right with god before we can be a good prayer for american military personnel throughout the world especially in harm's way in afghanistan we pray to the board lord hear our prayer for those who have been sexually abused or harris or violat we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for the word of god we ask you to listen to our prayers we bring him to you in the name of jesus our brother and savior with with us god forever and ever amen similar way would suffer was indeed he took the chalice once more giving thanks he gave it to his disciples saying take his soul with you injuring for me but this is the chalice of my blood the blood of the new an eternal covenant held us worthy to be in your presence and ministered to you how they repay their partaking of the body and blood of christ we may be gathered into one by the holy spirit remember the lord your church spread throughout the world