RELIGION AND ART

Wednesday 8th April - ‘What matters are you discussing as you walk along?’    First Reading Acts 3:1-10  I will give you what I have: in the name of Jesus, walk! Once, when Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the prayers at the ninth hour, it happened that there was a man being carried past. He was a cripple from birth; and they used to put him down every day near the Temple entrance called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from the people going in. When this man saw Peter and John on their way into the Temple he begged from them. Both Peter and John looked straight at him and said, ‘Look at us.’ He turned to them expectantly, hoping to get something from them, but Peter said, ‘I have neither silver nor gold, but I will give you what I have: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!’ Peter then took him by the hand and helped him to stand up. Instantly his feet and ankles became firm, he jumped up, stood, and began to walk, and he went with them int...

Easter Tuesday :  ‘What must we do, brothers? ’ First Reading Acts 2:36-41  You must repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus On the day of Pentecost, Peter spoke to the Jews: ‘The whole House of Israel can be certain that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.’ Hearing this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the apostles, ‘What must we do, brothers?’ ‘You must repent,’ Peter answered ‘and every one of you must be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise that was made is for you and your children, and for all those who are far away, for all those whom the Lord our God will call to himself.’ He spoke to them for a long time using many arguments, and he urged them, ‘Save yourselves from this perverse generation.’ They were convinced by his arguments, and they accepted what he said and were baptised. That very day about three thousand were added ...

  I saw the Lord before me always ‘Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers that they must leave for Galilee; they will see me there.’ First Reading Acts 2:14,22-43  God raised this man Jesus to life, and all of us are witnesses to this On the day of Pentecost Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed the crowd in a loud voice: ‘Men of Israel, listen to what I am going to say: Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God by the miracles and portents and signs that God worked through him when he was among you, as you all know. This man, who was put into your power by the deliberate intention and foreknowledge of God, you took and had crucified by men outside the Law. You killed him, but God raised him to life, freeing him from the pangs of Hades; for it was impossible for him to be held in its power since, as David says of him: I saw the Lord before me always, for with him at my right hand nothing can shake me. So my heart was glad and my tongue cried out with joy;...

This day was made by the  Lord Christ is truly risen from the dead  First Reading Acts 10:34,37-43  'We have eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection' Peter addressed Cornelius and his household: ‘You must have heard about the recent happenings in Judaea; about Jesus of Nazareth and how he began in Galilee, after John had been preaching baptism. God had anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, Jesus went about doing good and curing all who had fallen into the power of the devil. Now I, and those with me, can witness to everything he did throughout the countryside of Judaea and in Jerusalem itself: and also to the fact that they killed him by hanging him on a tree, yet three days afterwards God raised him to life and allowed him to be seen, not by the whole people but only by certain witnesses God had chosen beforehand. Now we are those witnesses – we have eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection from the dead...

THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST First Reading Isaiah  52:13–53,12   The servant of the Lord, an expiatory Sacrifice See, my servant shall prosper, he shall be raised high and greatly exalted. Even as many were amazed at him, so marred was his look beyond human semblance and his appearance beyond that of the sons of man, so shall he startle many nations, because of him kings shall stand speechless; for those who have not been told shall see, those who have not heard shall ponder it. Who would believe what we have heard? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up like a sapling before him, like a shoot from the parched earth; there was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him, nor appearance that would attract us to him. He was spurned and avoided by people, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, one of those from whom people hide their faces, spurned, and we held him in no esteem. Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that ...

HOLY SATURDAY - NO MASS   today.   Let us reflect on the mystery of our salvation. We thank God Almighty for His love over us His creatures. We thank God for His compassion over humanity. We thank God for sending Jesus Christ. We thank our Lord Jesus Christ for our salvation. All glory to God. the chant that was sang at the birth of our Saviour now accomplished by His death. Jesus Christ is Lord. to God   Almighty be the glory. Jesus I trust in you. My chants:   A ll that God created was very good Man of Sorrows Sole Hope of all the World As the Dewy Shades of Even Samedi Saint - Pas de messe aujourd'hui. Méditons sur le mystère de notre salut. Rendons grâce à Dieu Tout-Puissant pour son amour envers nous et ses créatures. Rendons grâce à Dieu pour sa compassion envers l'humanité. Rendons grâce à Dieu d'avoir envoyé Jésus-Christ. Rendons grâce à notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ pour notre salut. Gloire à Dieu. Le cantique chanté à la naissance de notre Sauveur s'est...

MAUNDY THURSDAY  'I give you a new commandment:                     love one another just as I have loved you.' First Reading Exodus 12:1-8,11-14   The Passover is a day of festival for all generations, for ever The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: ‘This month is to be the first of all the others for you, the first month of your year. Speak to the whole community of Israel and say, “On the tenth day of this month each man must take an animal from the flock, one for each family: one animal for each household. If the household is too small to eat the animal, a man must join with his neighbour, the nearest to his house, as the number of persons requires. You must take into account what each can eat in deciding the number for the animal. It must be an animal without blemish, a male one year old; you may take it from either sheep or goats. You must keep it till the fourteenth day of the month when the wh...