RELIGION AND ART

Lord, let the light of your glory shine within us, and lead us through the darkness of this world to the radiant of joy of our eternal home. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who lives with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.   Prayer of the Church: Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand." He went around all of Galilee,  teaching in their synagogues,  proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom,  and curing every disease  and illness among the people.  His fame spread to all of Syria,  and they brought to him  all who were sick with various diseases  and racked  with pain,  those who were possessed, lunatics, and paralytics, and he cured them.  And great crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan followed him Matt. 4:23-25.   Readings

EPIPHANY Lord Jesus help me to persevere in my search for you. Give me the courage to move on, and the Holy Spirit to strengthen and direct me. Readings Wisdom is the refulgence of eternal light, the spotless mirror of the power of God the image of goodness.  And she, who is one, can do all things, and renews everything while herself perduring; and passing into holy souls from age to age, she produces friends of God and prophets. Wis. 7:26-27

Beloved: This is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, and not be like Cain who was of the Evil One and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. Do not wonder, brethren, that the world hates you.  We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love remains in death...... 1 John 3:11-21 Readings

Little children; let no one deceive you.  He who does right is righteous.  He who commits sin is of the devil; for the devil have sinned from the beginning.  The reason Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. Anyone born of God does not commit sin; for God does not commit sin; for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.... Ltr of Saint John 3:7-10 Readings Prayer of the Church: Liberator of mankind, through the Virgin Mary, you came to renew us, through her intercession keep us from our old ways. Son of God, you have shown us the Father's love, help us too show him to one another by our love