RELIGION AND ART

PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S         Act of Love before Mass O my God, I love Thee with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my strength and with no other desire than to be inseparably united to Thee. It is through Thy Divine Son that this union is about to be realized within me. In Holy Communion I long to identify myself with Him, that it will no longer be myself, but Him, who lives in me; and when I have received Jesus within myself, then I shall love and be loved by Thee in that same measure, in which I am united to Him. Hasten then, to give me Thy Divine Son, at the hands of Thy priest, that through Jesus, I may unite myself forever to Thee, O God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit.   Mass Readings    Lectures du jour   Reflection for the day First reading Exodus 2:1-15 Pharaoh's daughter finds Moses among the bulrushes There was a man of the tribe of Levi who had taken a woman of Levi as his wife. She conceived and gave birth to a son and, seeing what a fine child he

For this Melchizedek: King of Salem, priest of the Most High God who met Abraham and blessed him as he returned from defeating the kings, and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything; first, his name mean "king of righteousness", then also "king of Salem", meaning "king of peace", without father, mother, or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God. Heb. 7:1-3