and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries a reading from the st letter of st paul yourselves no brothers and sisters that our reception among you was not without its fact rather after we had suffered and had been insolently treated as you know in philip by we do courage to our god to speak to use the gospel of god with much struggle our exhortation was not from didn't do or impure motives nor did it works through deception but as we were judged worthy by god to be interested with the gospel that is how we speak not as trying to please man but rather god who judges our hearts nor indeed did we ever appear with flattering speeches you know or was a pretext for greed god is witness nor did we seek praise from men either from new or from others although we were able to impose o as apostles of christ rather we were gentle among you as a nursing mother cares for her children with such affection in you we were determined to share with you  only the gospel of god but our various sounds as well so dearly beloved had you become to us the word of the lord thank you have searched me and you know me the lord you have searched me and you know me in the lord the lord you have poked me in you know me you know when i sit and when i stand you understand my thoughts from afar you know the whole of it behind me and before you hand me in and rest your hands upon me such knowledge is too wonderful for me too lofty for me to attain you searched me and you know me  lord be with you reading from the holy gospel according to matthew but these you should have done without neglecting the others lying guides you strain out the gnat and swallow the camel way they lived their lives they were not faithful they were not pure they did all sorts of things to live a life of abandon and monica as a christian knew that her husband was her husband and even though he was a very different difficult and different man she prayed for him every day should keep praying and praying and praying he was neither christian he was a pagan and yet her prayers eventually at the end of the man's life he came around he became a christian he became baptized and her son was even more important to her because she saw the potential in this young augustan and she saw that he took advantage of his father's example and did but his father did any of the child out of wedlock he was dissolute in famous for just being a party guy and not being someone who paid any attention to the ways of god and at a certain point in his life whom everything changed the prayers that monica the mother had for her son and her husband were effective if they came about  doing exactly what she wanted god to do with them touch their heart bring them close to him give them purpose give them a strategy of living that was a good one and not a dissolute one and was model of what a catholic bishop should be like and yet he had all of these skeletons in his closet but he was able because of the prayers of his mother and obviously of self also to throw the past away and get right with god so it is a perfect day for us to think about people who are in that situation in most of us would do a number of people that have been living lives that aren't that good or have dumped their christianity dumped their faithfulness to the church had have gone off and deep on the deep end and lived lives the dissolution said today is a day for us to remember them to pray for them just like monica asked the board somehow to touch their lives kathy said to patrick's we have a statue of st monica right above the pizza and one of us issues as she lay dying at the end of her life and at the end of her life she could easily go to god and say well we work together we accomplished a tremendous thing because augustus became the most one of the most famous  of all times it's one last thing the response oriel psalm today is one that i always recommend for all of us to to read and to pray and to to understand is some one hundred and thirty nine and it's you have you know my days and my nights you understand my journeys from afar with all my you understand my rest in my working all of the things that make people kind of run away from god are answered in this  and thirty nine dollars so every year i recommended for for all of us to pray the name of the father of the son of the holy spirit and then the spray we pray for our holy father pope francis we pray for our shepherd cardinal we pray for teachers those who are guiding students especially as we begin a new school year as monika tried to guide her family that they be given god's grace to do a good job we prayed to the board  pat for american military personnel throughout the world especially those in harm's way in afghanistan we prayed to the lord all our chad back for those who work for the defense of human life from its earliest moments to those for those who work the work of human hands who will become for us the bread of life we bring you these sacrificial get so bored to commemorate blessid monica humbly and treating that they may be still when i was both pardoned and salvation through christ  everywhere to give you thanks board holy father almighty and eternal god through christ all aboard for the marvelous confession of your saints you make your church fruitful with strains every news and offer us s signs of your love and that you are saving mysteries may be fulfilled their great example lens and courage their fervent prayers sustain us you know we do and so bored with all the ages and saints we to a similar way when 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 fullness of charity also be one with him in his resurrection remember also of brothers and sisters who are full and asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy welcomed them into the light of your face ever and ever 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 deliver us lord we pray f sign of peace