RELIGION AND ART

Altar Server Prayer:  Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving his brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people   Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well. Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts.  Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and  give you praise and glory now and for ever. Amen. Mass Readings Jobs spoke to his friends:   In deed, I know it is as you say: how can man be in the right against God?  one in a thousand would be more than they could answer. His heart is wise, and his strength is great: who the can successfully defy him? He moves the mountains, though they do not know it; he throws them down when he is angry. making all it pillars tremble. The sun, at his command, forbears to rise, and on the stars he sets a seal. He and no other stretched out the ski

Altar Server Prayer:  Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving his brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people   Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well. Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts.  Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and give you praise and glory now and for ever. Amen  Mass Readings As I Watched:  Thrones were set in place and one of great age took his seat. His robe was white as snow, the hair of his head as pure as wool. His throne was a blaze of flames, its wheels were a burning fire. A stream of fire poured out, issuing from his presence. A thousand thousand waited on him, ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. A court was held and the books were opened. I gazed into the visions of the night:          And I saw, coming on the clouds of

A ltar Server Prayer:  Father in heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving his brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people   Open my mouth to praise you in word and song. Open my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well. Take from me all evil and distracting thoughts.  Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and give you praise and glory now and for ever. Amen      Mass Readings JOB 1:6-22   One day the Sons of God came to attend on the Lord, and among them was Satan. So the Lord said to Satan, "Where have you been?" 'Round the earth,' he answered 'roaming about.' So the Lord asked him, "Did you notice my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth: a sound and honest man who fears God and shuns evil." 'Yes' Satan said 'but Job is not God-fearing for nothing, is he? Have you not put a wal

A ltar Server Prayer:   Father in  heaven, Your Son Jesus Christ showed his love for you by serving his brothers and sisters in need.  I now ask you to give me your help I serve you and your people   Open my mout h to praise you in word and song. O pen my ears to hear your word. Open my hand to do your work well. Take from me all evil and distracting  thoughts.  Help me to know what I should do and do it well. Help me to serve reverently at your Holy Altar and give you praise and glory now and for ever. Amen.  Mass Readings     The word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows: ‘You object, “What the Lord does is unjust.” Listen, you House of Israel: is what I do unjust? Is it not what you do that is unjust? When the upright man renounces his integrity to commit sin and dies because of this, he dies because of the evil that he himself has committed. When the sinner renounces sin to become law-abiding and honest, he deserves to live. He has chosen to renounce all his previous sins; he