RELIGION AND ART

13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME No one who sets a hand to the plough and looks at what is left behind is fit for the kingdom of God says the Lord. Jesus, Help Me! In EVERY need let me come to you with humble trust, saying ‘Jesus, help me!’ In all my doubts, perplexities, and temptations: Jesus, help me! In hours of loneliness, weakness and trials: Jesus, help me! In failure of my plans and hopes, in disappointments, troubles and sorrows: Jesus, help me! When others fail me, and your Grace alone can assist me: Jesus, help me! When I throw myself on your tender love as a Father and Saviour: Jesus, help me! When my heart is cast down by failure at seeing no good come from my efforts: Jesus, help me! When I feel impatient, and my cross irritates me: Jesus, help me! When I am ill, and my head and hands cannot work and I am lonely: Jesus, help me! Always, always, in spite of weakness, falls and shortcomings of every kind: Jesus, help me and never for

FIFTH WEEK OF LENT ‘‘Come now, let us reason together,’’ says the LORD.   ‘‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool’’. Isaiah 1:18 ‘’Venez et discutons,’’ dit le   SEIGNEUR.   ‘’Si vos péchés sont comme l’écarlate, ils deviendront blancs comme la neige ; s’ils sont rouges comme le vermillon, ils deviendront comme de la laine’’.   Ésaïe 1 :18 ‘’I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remember your sins no more.’’   Isaiah 43 :25 Moi, cependant, moi je suis tel que j’efface, par égard pour moi, tes révoltes, que je ne garde pas tes fautes en mémoire.   Ésaïe 43 :25   Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts.   Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.   Isaiah 55:7 Que le méchant   abandonne son chemin, et l’homme malfaisant, ses pensées.   Qu’il retourne vers le SEIN