RELIGION AND ART

SAINT IGNATIUS OF LAYOLA A l 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 Textes liturgiques  Saint Ignatius  I, having once heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love that you show towards all the saints, have never failed to remember you in my prayers and to thank God for you. May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit of wisdom and perception of what is revealed, to bring you to full knowledge of him. May he enlighten the eyes of your mind so that you can see what

A l 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 Reading Textes liturgiques It is in Christ that we were claimed as God’s own, chosen from the beginning, under the predetermined plan of the one who guides all things as he decides by his own will; chosen to be, for his greater glory, the people who would put their hopes in Christ before he came. Now you too, in him, have heard the message of the truth and the good news of your salvation, and have believed it; and you too have been stamped with the seal of the Holy Spirit o

SAINT TERESA OF AVILA A l 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 Reading Textes liturgiques Saint Teresa of Avila From Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, to the saints who are faithful to Christ Jesus. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.   Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,  who has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings of heaven in Christ. Before the world was made, he chose us, chose us in Christ, to be holy and spotless, and to li

A l 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 Textes liturgiques If you are led by the Spirit, no law can touch you. When self-indulgence is at work the results are obvious: fornication, gross indecency and sexual irresponsibility; idolatry and sorcery; feuds and wrangling, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels; disagreements, factions, envy; drunkenness, orgies and similar things. I warn you now, as I warned you before: those who behave like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. What the Spirit brings is ve