RELIGION AND ART

Brothers and sisters: If God is for us, who can be against us? He did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? Who will bring a charge against God's chosen ones?  It is he who acquits us. Who will condemn? It is Christ Jesus who died, rather, was raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? As it is written: For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us..... Readings Textes liturgiques

The Spirit comes to help us in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words in order to pray properly, the Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words, and God who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he means, and that the pleas of the saints expressed by the Spirit are  according to the mind of God. We know that by turning everything to their good God co-operates with all those who love him, with all those that  he has called according to his purpose. They are  the ones he chose specially long ago and intended to become true images of his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest of many brothers. He called those he intended for this, those he called he justified, and with those he justified he shared his glory. Readings Textes liturgiques My prayer Psalm 142 My Father in heaven, thank you for your Holy Spirit my teacher.  Father you know everything in my heart, I turn everything to you Father....

The Lord is a judge who is no respecter of personages. He who shows no respect of personages to the detriment of a poor man, he listens to the plea of the injured party. He does not ignore the orphan's supplication, nor the widow's as she pours out her story. The man who with his whole heart serves God will be accepted, his petitions will carry to the clouds. The humble man's prayer pierces the clouds, until it arrives he is inconsolable, and the Lord will not be slow....... Readings Textes liturgiques My Father, and my God, you are full of compassion and  love. You are patient to all, and Your mercy is enduring. Father you love all your creatures and ever ready to come to our aid. Father, thank you for your love and compassion to all your creatures. My prayer Psalm 86

The reason why those who are in Christ Jesus are not condemned is that the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. God has done what the law, because of our unspiritual nature, was unable to do. God dealt with sin by sending his own Son in a body as physical as any sinful body, and in that body God condemned sin. He did this in order that the Law's just demands might be satisfied in us, who behave not as our unspiritual nature but as the spirit dictates. Readings at Mass Textes liturgiques  My Father in heaven, thank you for I am in Christ Jesus for the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. Beautiful Saviour

I know of nothing good living in me, that is, in my unspiritual self, for through the will to do what is good in me, the performance is not, with the result that instead of doing the good things I want to do, I carry out the sinful things I do not want. When I act against my will, then, it is not my true self doing it, but sin which lives in me. In fact, this seems to be the rule, that every single time I want to do good it is something evil that comes to hand.  In my inmost self I dearly love God's Law, but I can see that my body follows a different law that battles against the law which my reason dictates. This is what makes me a prisoner of that law of sin which lives inside my body. What a wretched man (woman) I am! who will rescue me from this body doomed to death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! Readings Textes Liturgiques My Father in heaven, thank you for your grace which enables me to perform good works.  Your grace through Jesus C...

If I may use human terms to help your natural weakness: as once you put your bodies at the service of vice and immorality, so now you must put them at the service of righteousness for your sanctification. When you were slaves of sin, you felt no obligation to righteousness, and what did you get from this? Nothing but experiences that now make you blush, since that sort of behaviour ends in death. Now, however, you have been set free from sin, you have been made slaves of God, and you get a reward leading to sanctification and ending in eternal life. For the wage paid by sin is death; the present given by God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Mass Readings Textes Liturgiques  Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of Your Son Jesus Christ, a reward leading to our sanctification, and eternal life.  Thank you for setting us free from the slavery of sin, and death. I am now God's slave.

You must not let sin reign in your mortal bodies or command your obedience to bodily passions, you must not let any part of your body turn into an unholy weapon fighting on the side of sin; you should, instead, offer yourselves to God, and consider yourselves dead men (women) brought back to life; you should make every part of your body into a weapon fighting on the side of God; and then sin will no longer dominate your life, since you are living by grace and not by law. Readings Textes liturgique s My Prayer: My Heavenly Father, thank you for your grace, for with your grace sin will no longer dominate my life. Through your grace sin will never reign over my mortal body. I will be used as a vessel to the glory of your name. I offer myself to you Father considering myself dead, but brought back to life by your grace. My prayer Psalm 51