RELIGION AND ART

Psalm 39(40):2,5,7-10 ©  Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will. I waited, I waited for the Lord and he stooped down to me; he heard my cry. Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord and has not gone over to the rebels who follow false gods. ou do not ask for sacrifice and offerings, but an open ear. You do not ask for holocaust and victim.  Instead, here am I. In the scroll of the book it stands written that I should do your will. My God, I delight in your law in the depth of my heart. Your justice I have proclaimed in the great assembly. My lips I have not sealed; you know it, O Lord.  Liturgical Readings of the day

1 Samuel 2:1,4-8 © My heart exults in the Lord. I find my strength in my God; My heart exults in the Lord. I find my strength in my God; my mouth laughs at my enemies as I rejoice in your saving help. The bows of the mighty are broken, PRAY HOLY ROSARY but the weak are clothed with strength. Those with plenty must labour for bread, but the hungry need work no more. The childless wife has children now  but the fruitful wife bears no more. It is the Lord who gives life and death, he brings men to the grave and back; it is the Lord who gives poverty and riches. He brings men low and raises them on high. He lifts up the lowly from the dust, from the dung   heap he raises the poor to set him in the company of princes to give him a glorious throne. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, on them he has set the world. My mouth laughs at my enemies as I rejoice in your saving help.................

Am I really alone? This is a question I often ask myself. I prefer my quietness to think about you and meditate on your wonders. I can be in deep thought, while I think it is like conversing with a being. I ask questions in my heart and I get different answers. When I am not too sure of the response,  I keep pondering about different answers and ideas. In the course of this I ask you to direct me. God am I really alone? No for I know that the questions I ask most times, No one can give me the right answer except you. This is when I sit all by myself, with your presence ever near.  I am never alone, No Father, you are ever near to lead, direct, guide and guard me LORD.

1 John 3:11-21 © This is the message as you heard it from the beginning: that we are to love one another; not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One and cut his brother’s throat; cut his brother’s throat simply for this reason, that his own life was evil and his brother lived a good life. You must not be surprised, brothers, when the world hates you; we have passed out of death and into life, and of this we can be sure because we love our brothers. If you refuse to love, you must remain dead; to hate your brother is to be a murderer, and murderers, as you know, do not have eternal life in them. This has taught us love – that he gave up his life for us; and we, too, ought to give up our lives for our brothers.........

1 John 3:7-10 © My children, do not let anyone lead you astray: to live a holy life is to be holy just as he is holy; to lead a sinful life is to belong to the devil, since the devil was a sinner from the beginning. It was to undo all that the devil has done that the Son of God appeared. No one who has been begotten by God sins; because God’s seed remains inside him, he cannot sin when he has been begotten by God. In this way we distinguish the children of God from the children of the devil: anybody not living a holy life and not loving his brother is no child of God’s.