RELIGION AND ART

Al tar 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 Let me sing to my friend the song of his love for his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug the soil, cleared it of stones and planted choice vines in it. In the middle he built a tower, he dug a press there too.  He expected it to yield grapes, but sour grapes were all that it gave.  And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I ask you to judge   between my vineyard and me. What could I have done for my vineyard  that I have not d

Al tar 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 This was the answer Job gave to the Lord; I know that you are all-power: what you conceive, you can perform. I am the man who obscured your designs with my empty-headed word. I have been holding forth on matters I cannot understand, on marvels beyond me and my knowledge. I knew you then only by hearsay; but now, having seen you with my own eyes I retract all I have said, and in dust and ashes I repent. The Lord blessed Job's new fortune even more than his first one

 Al tar 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 From the heart of the tempest the Lord gave Job his answer. He said: Have you ever in your life given orders to the morning or sent the dawn to its post, telling it to grasp the earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it, when it changes the earth to sealing clay and dyes it as a man dyes clothes; stealing the light from wicked men and b reaking the arm raised to strike? Have you journeyed all the way to the sources of the sea, or walked where the Abyss is deepes

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 Job said: Pity me, pity me, you, friends, for the hand of God has stuck me. Why do you hound me down like God, will you never have enough of my flesh? Ah, would that these words of mine were written down, inscribed on some monument with iron chisel and engraving too, cut into the rock for ever. This I know: that my Avenger lives, and he, the Last, will take his stand on earth, After my awaking, he will  set me close to him, and my flesh I shall look on God. He whom I shal