RELIGION AND ART

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.  His works are great, beyond all reckoning,   his marvels, past all counting.  Were he to pass me

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 life to those bitter of heart,  who long for a death that never comes,   and hunt for it mo