RELIGION AND ART

First Reading 1 John 2:22-28 The anointing he gave you teaches you everything The man who denies that Jesus is the Christ  he is the liar, he is Antichrist; and he is denying the Father as well as the Son, because no one who has the Father can deny the Son, and to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father as well. Keep alive in yourselves what you were taught in the beginning: as long as what you were taught in the beginning is alive in you, you will live in the Son and in the Father; and what is promised to you by his own promise is eternal life. This is all that I am writing to you about the people who are trying to lead you astray. But you have not lost the anointing that he gave you, and you do not need anyone to teach you; the anointing he gave teaches you everything; you are anointed with truth, not with a lie, and as it has taught you, so you must stay in him. Live in Christ, then, my children, so that if he appears, we may have full confidence, and not turn from him...

First Reading Num. 6:22-27 They are to call down my name on the sons of Israel, and I will bless them The Lord spoke to Moses and said, ‘Say this to Aaron and his sons:  “This is how you are to bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them: May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord let his face shine on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord uncover his face to you and bring you peace.” This is how they are to call down my name on the sons of Israel, and I will bless them.’   Responsorial Psalm : O God, be gracious and bless us.   Second Reading Gal. 4:4-7 God sent his Son, born of a woman When the appointed time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of the Law, to redeem the subjects of the Law and to enable us to be adopted as sons. The proof that you are sons is that God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts: the Spirit that cries, ‘Abba, Father’, and it is this that makes you a son, you are not a slave any ...

WEDNESDAY WEEK 26 IN ORDINARY TIME: Universalis The Lord has commanded his angels to keep you in all your ways. First ReadingJob 9:1-13,14-16  How can man be in the right against God? Job spoke to his friends:  Indeed, I know it is as you say:   how can man be in the right against God?   If any were so rash as to challenge him for reasons,  one in a thousand would be more than they could answer.  His heart is wise, and his strength is great:   who then can successfully defy him?  He moves the mountains, though they do not know it;  he throws them down when he is angry.  He shakes the earth, and moves it from its place,  making all its pillars tremble.  The sun, at his command, forbears to rise,  and on the stars he sets a seal.  He and no other stretched out the skies,  and trampled the Sea’s tall waves.  The Bear, Orion too, are of his making,   the Pleiades and the Mansions of the South....

TUESDAY WEEK 26 IN ORDINARY TIME: Universalis Let my prayer come into your presence, O Lord Reading Job    3:1-3,11-17,20-23  Why did I not perish on the day I was born? Job broke the silence and cursed the day of his birth. This is what he said: May the day perish when I was born,  and the night that told of a boy conceived. Why did I not die new-born,   not perish as I left the womb? Why were there two knees to receive me,  two breasts for me to suck?  Had there not been, I should now be lying in peace,  wrapped in a restful slumber,  with the kings and high viziers of earth   who build themselves vast vaults,  or with princes who have gold and to spare   and houses crammed with silver.  Or put away like a still-born child that never came to be,  like unborn babes that never see the light.  Down there, bad men bustle no more,   there the weary rest. Why give light to a man of grief?   Why give li...

JEUDI 22E SEMAINE DU TEMPS ORDINAIRE: AELF Saint Grégoire le Grand, pape et docteur de l'Église « Silence ! Sors de cet homme. »  Première Lecture 1 Corinthiens 2,10b-1  l’Esprit scrute le fond de toutes choses   Frères, l’Esprit scrute le fond de toutes choses, même les profondeurs de Dieu. Qui donc, parmi les hommes, sait ce qu’il y a dans l’homme, sinon l’esprit de l’homme qui est en lui ? De même, personne ne connaît ce qu’il y a en Dieu, sinon l’Esprit de Dieu. Or nous, ce n’est pas l’esprit du monde que nous avons reçu, mais l’Esprit qui vient de Dieu, et ainsi nous avons conscience des dons que Dieu nous a accordés. Nous disons cela avec un langage que nous n’apprenons pas de la sagesse humaine, mais que nous apprenons de l’Esprit ; nous comparons entre elles les réalités spirituelles. L’homme, par ses seules capacités, n’accueille pas ce qui vient de l’Esprit de Dieu ; pour lui ce n’est que folie, et il ne peut pas comprendre, car c’est par l’Esprit qu...

TUESDAY WEEK 22 IN ORDINARY TIME: Universalis Saint Gregory, Pope, Doctor of the Church ‘Be quiet! Come out of him!’ First Reading 1 Corinthians 2:10-16  The Spirit reaches even the depths of God The Spirit reaches the depths of everything, even the depths of God. After all, the depths of a man can only be known by his own spirit, not by any other man, and in the same way the depths of God can only be known by the Spirit of God. Now instead of the spirit of the world, we have received the Spirit that comes from God, to teach us to understand the gifts that he has given us. Therefore we teach, not in the way in which philosophy is taught, but in the way that the Spirit teaches us: we teach spiritual things spiritually.  An unspiritual person is one who does not accept anything of the Spirit of God: he sees it all as nonsense; it is beyond his understanding because it can only be understood by means of the Spirit. A spiritual man, on the other hand, is able to judge the value of...