RELIGION AND ART

A ltar Server Prayer:   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving his brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.  Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts.   Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever.  Amen Readings Lectures  Christ is proclaimed; and that makes me happy; and I shall continue being happy, because I know this will help to save me, thanks to your prayers and to the help which will be given to me by the Spirit of Jesus. My one hope and trust is that I shall never have to admit defeat, but that now as always I shall have the courage for Christ to be glorified in my body, whether by my  life or by my death....

A ltar Server Prayer:   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving his brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.  Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts. Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever.  Amen Readings Lectures From Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus, together with their presiding elders and deacons. We wish you the grace and peace of God our Father and of the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God whenever I think of you; and every time I pray for all of you, I pray with joy, remembering how you have helped to spread the Good News from the day you first heard it right up to the...

A ltar Server Prayer:   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving  his brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.  Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts. Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever.  Amen Readings Lectures Grow strong in the Lord, with the strength of his power. Put God’s armour on so as to be able to resist the devil’s tactics. For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the Sovereignties and the Powers who originate the darkness in this world, the spiritual army of evil in the heavens. That is why you must rely on God’s armour, or you will not be able to put up any resistance...

A ltar Server Prayer:   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving  his brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.  Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts. Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever.  Amen Mass Readings   (Saints Simon and Jude) Lectures de la Messer Y ou are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him, are being...

A ltar Server Prayer:   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving  his brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.  Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts. Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever.  Amen Mass Readings Mess du jour Give way to one another in obedience to Christ. Wives should regard their husbands as they regard the Lord, since as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his wife; and as the Church submits to Christ, so should wives to their husbands, in everything. Husbands should love their wives just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her to mak...

A ltar Server Prayer:   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving  his brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.  Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts. Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever.  Amen Mass Readings Textes liturgiques Be friends with one another, and kind, forgiving each other as readily as God forgave you in Christ.  Try, then, to imitate God as children of his that he loves and follow Christ loving as he loved you, giving himself up in our place as a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God. Among you there must be not even a mention of fornication or impurity in any of its forms, or promiscuity: this...

A l tar Server Prayer :   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving   his  brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people   Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.   Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts . Help me to know what I should do and do it well.  Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever.  Amen Mass Readings Textes liturgiques The Lord said to Moses, ‘Tell the sons of Israel this:   ‘“You must not molest the stranger or oppress him, for you lived as strangers in the land of Egypt. You must not be harsh with the widow, or with the orphan; if you are harsh with them, they will surely cry out to me, and be sure I shall hear their cry; my anger will flare and I shall kill you with the sword, your own w...

A l tar Server Prayer :   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving   his  brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people   Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.   Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts .  Help me to know what I should do and do it well.  Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever.  Amen      Mass Readings    Textes liturgiques Each one of us has been given his own share of grace, given as Christ allotted it. It was said that he would:  When he ascended to the height, he captured prisoners,  he gave gifts to men.  When it says, ‘he ascended’, what can it mean if not that he descended right down to the lower regions of the earth? The one who rose higher tha...

A l tar Server Prayer :   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving   his  brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people   Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.   Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts .  Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever. Amen  Mass Readings Lectures du jour I, the prisoner in the Lord, implore you to lead a life worthy of your vocation. Bear with one another charitably, in complete selflessness, gentleness and patience. Do all you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together. There is one Body, one Spirit, just as you were all called into one and the same hope when you were called. There is one Lord, one fait...

A l tar Server Prayer :   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving   his  brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people   Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.   Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts .  Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever. Amen  Saint John Paull II- Pope Mass Reading Lectures du Jour This is what I pray, kneeling before the Father, from whom every family, whether spiritual or natural, takes its name:  Out of his infinite glory, may he give you the power through his Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saint...

A l tar Server Prayer :   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving   his  brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people   Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.   Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts .  Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever. Amen. Mass Readings Textes liturgiques You have probably heard how I have been entrusted by God with the grace he meant for you, and that it was by a revelation that I was given the knowledge of the mystery, as I have just described it very shortly. If you read my word you will have some idea of the depths that I see in the mystery of Christ. This that has now been revealed through the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets wa...

A l tar Server Prayer :   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving   his  brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people   Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.   Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts .  Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever. Amen. Mass Readings Textes liturgiques Do not forget that you had no Christ and were excluded from membership of Israel, aliens with no part in the covenants with their Promise; you were immersed in this world, without hope and without God. But now in Christ Jesus, you that used to be so far apart from us have been brought very close, by the blood of Christ. For he is the peace between us, and has made the two into one and broke...

A l tar Server Prayer :   Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving   his  brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people   Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well.   Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts .  Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever. Amen.   Mass Readings Textes liturgiques You were dead through the crimes and the sins in which you used to live when you were following the way of this world, obeying the ruler who governs the air, the spirit who is at work in the rebellious. We all were among them too in the past, living sensual lives, ruled entirely by our own physical desires and our own ideas; so that by nature we were as much under God’s anger as the ...