worldly we call to mind our sins and ask for the mercy that flows from the most sacred heart of jesus alexandria and invincible champion of the divine maternity of the most less a virgin mary grant we pray that we who believe she is truly the mother of god may be saved through the incarnation of christ your a reading from the book of genesis told your mate is in your power do to her or whatever you please so right then abused her so much that hagar ran away from her lord's messenger found her by a spring in the wilderness a spring on the road to shore and he asked a car made of so right where have you come from and where are you going she answered i am running away from my mistress all right but the lord's messenger told her go back to your mistress and submit to her abusive treatment i will make your descendants so numerous towards messenger that they will be too many to count besides the lord's messenger said to her you are now pregnant and shall bear a son you shall name him a smile for the lord has heard your god has answered this one shall be a wild ass of a man his hand against every one and every one's hand against him in opposition to all his  to the lord for he is good give thanks to the lord for he is good give thanks to the lord for he is good for his mercy indoors of your chosen ones rejoice in the joy of your people and glory with your inher lord be with you and with your spirit already from the holy gospel according to matthew laura the lord jesus said to his disciples not everyone who says to me lord lord will enter the kingdom of heaven but only the one who does the will of my father in heaven many will say to me on that day lord lord did we not prophesied in your name that we not drive out demons in your name did we not do mighty deeds in your name then i will declare to them so i never knew you depart from me you evil doers every one who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock the rain fell the floods came and the winds blew and buffeted the house but it did not collapse it had been set solidly on rock and every one who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built this house on sand the rain fell the floods came and the winds blew and buffeted the house and it collapsed and was completely ruined when jesus finished these words the crowds were astonished at his teaching for he taught them as one having with oratory and not as their scribes the gospel of the lord praise two large jesus christ jesus jesus teaches us in this morning's gospel our lives need to be built upon a solid rock like foundation faith trust in him living in believing the values that he's revealed when i was a parish priest i was close to a a young couple she was pregnant he was a bartender was is job he was a bartender and he had he had gone through a lot of trouble he had been falsely accused of taking money he was shown to be innocent and then while he was driving he was in a terrible accident he was relatively unscathed but his wife and his unborn baby were killed and as you might imagine it was a very difficult time for him and i tried to stay close to him and i finally said are you doing all right i'm worried about you were you doing all right and he looked at me said father i am shaken but not spilled a bartender's term shaken but not spilled what that's what he was saying right his life was built on a solid foundation faith trust with god's revealed the wisdom that comes from god the trust in prayer and divine providence and that was the rock that was getting in through these when this in the st creech ing and keep her safe an answer to his prayers and so with the company of angels and saints we sing the hymn of your praises without end we so that they may become for us the body and blood of our lord the chalice of salvation giving thanks richard held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you humbly we pray that our taking of the body and blood of christ we may be gathered into one by the holy spirit let us pray renewed by the sacred mysteries we humbly pray a large that following the example of seeing cyril of alexandria we may strive to profess what he believes and t