RELIGION AND ART

Heavenly Father, help me to be like your Son, Jesus Christ. Help me become poor in spirit, as He was, relying only on your divine providence. Father help me discern my wants from my need.  Help me to respect all creatures and see my fellow being as your creatures.  Thank you Father for your goodness, and your providence.  Help me to be kind and humble. Psalm 142

Lord, I thank you for the gift of life. Help me Father to see your goodness and mercy in all my circumstances today. Lord Jesus Christ be my help.

Paul and his friends went by sea from Paphos to Perga in Pamphylia where John left them to go back to Jerusalem.  The others carried on from Perga till they reached Antioch in Pisidia.  Here they went to synagogue on the sabbath and took their seats.  After the lessons from the Law and the Prophets had been read, the presidents of the synagogue sent them a message: 'Brothers, if you would like to address some words of encouragement to the congregation, please do so. 'Paul stood up, held up a hand for silence and began to speak: Readings Songs  My prayer Psalm 27

One day Peter stood up to speak to the brothers - there were about a hundred and twenty persons in the congregation: 'Brothers, the passage of scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit speaking through David, foretells the fate of Judas, who offered himself as a guide to the men who arrested Jesus - after having been one of our number and actually sharing this ministry of our. Readings Psalm 112                                                                                                           'Let his camp be reduced to ruin,                                                                                                               Let there be no one to live in it.'                                                                                                             'Let someone else take his office.'