RELIGION AND ART

MONDAY FIFTH WEEK OF LENT YEAR C 'I AM INNOCENT  OF THIS WOMAN'S DEATH !'  Readings First Reading  Daniel 13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62    Susannah and the elders  In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim. He had married Susanna daughter of Hilkiah, a woman of great beauty; and she was God-fearing, because her parents were worthy people and had instructed their daughter in the Law of Moses. Joakim was a very rich man, and had a garden attached to his house; the Jews would often visit him since he was held in greater respect than any other man. Two elderly men had been selected from the people that year to act as judges. Of such the Lord said, ‘Wickedness has come to Babylon through the elders and judges posing as guides to the people.’ These men were often at Joakim’s house, and all who were engaged in litigation used to come to them. At midday, when everyone had gone, Susanna used to take a walk in her husband’s garden. The two elders, who used to watch her every day as she ca

19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Prayer O Jesus Christ, Divine Master, I thank and bless your loving Heart for the great gift of the Holy Eucharist. Your love makes you dwell in our tabernacles, to renew your passion and death in the Mass, to give yourself as food for our souls in Holy Communion. May I come to know you, O hidden God. May I drink from the fount of living waters that flow from your Heart. Grant me to visit you every day in this holy sacrament; to assist at holy Mass with understanding, to receive you in Holy Communion often and with the proper disposition. May all men respond to your invitation, “Come to me all you who are burdened.”                                                                                                                  Blessed Alberione James  they are happy