RELIGION AND ART

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 Christ

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

Jesus said to his disciples: 'See that you are dressed for action and have your lamps lit. Be like men waiting for their master to return from wedding feast, ready to open the door as soon as he comes and knocks.  Happy those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes.  I tell you solemnly, he will put on an apron, sit them down at the table and wait on them. It may be in the second watch he comes, or in the third, but happy those servants if he finds them ready.  Readings   lectures du jour My Prayer: My Lord Jesus Christ, you said we should be dressed for action, and our lamps lit.                    As we wait for Your return when You knock, keep us awake so that our doors are                    opened to welcome You. My heart is the door, keep me awake to open and                    receive You. Here I am Lord, I come to do Your will. Here I am Lord