RELIGION AND ART

Thursday October 1st in Ordinary Time:   “The kingdom of God is very near to you.” We celebrate Our Blessed Mother. Our Lady Queen of Nigeria our Patroness Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor of the Church First Reading Job 19:21-27  My Avenger lives and will set me close to him when I awake Job said: Pity me, pity me, o you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me! Why do you hound me as though you were divine, and insatiably prey upon me? Oh, would that my words were written down! Would that they were inscribed in a record: That with an iron chisel and with lead they were cut in the rock forever! But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives, and that he will at last stand forth upon the dust; whom I myself shall see: my own eyes, not another's, shall behold him, and from my flesh I shall see God; my inmost being is consumed with longing. Responsorial Psalm:   I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living Gospel ...

Saint Jerome ,Priest and Doctor of the Church: Wednesday Week 26 in Ordinary Time GOD'S GREATNESS   'No one who sets a hand to the plow and  looks to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God'  First Reading Job 9:1-12.14-16 How can man be in the right against God? Job answered his friends and said: I know well that it is so; but how can a man be justified before God? Should one wish to contend with him, he could not answer him once in a thousand times. God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has withstood him and remained unscathed? He removes the mountains before they know it; he overturns them in his anger. He shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars beneath it tremble. He commands the sun, and it rises not; he seals up the stars. He alone stretches out the heavens and treads upon the crests of the sea. He made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south; he does great things past finding out, marvelous things be...