RELIGION AND ART

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. Readings Lectures Reflection In a very short time, the deaf will hear and the eyes of the blind will see Thus says the Lord;    In a short time, a very short time,  shall not Lebanon become fertile land  and fertile land turn into forest?  The deaf, that day,  will hear the words of a book  and, after shadow and darkness,  the eyes of the blind will see. But the lowly will rejoice in the Lord even more  and the poorest exult in the Holy One of Israel;  for tyrants shall be no more, and scoffers vanish,  a

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. Readings Lecture s Reflection Saint Francis Xavier OPEN THE GATES' LET THE UPRIGHT NATION COME IN That day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city;  to guard us he has set  wall and rampart about us. Open the gates! Let the upright nation come in,  she, the faithful one whose mind is steadfast, who keeps the peace,  because she trusts in you. Trust in the Lord for ever,  for the Lord is the everlasting Rock; he has brought low those who lived high up  in the steep citadel; h

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. Readings Lectures Reflection The Lord will prepare a banquet for every nation On this mountain, the Lord of hosts will prepare for all peoples  a banquet of rich food, a banquet of fine wines, of food rich and juicy, of fine strained wines. On this mountain he will remove the mourning veil covering all peoples, and the shroud enwrapping all nations, he will destroy Death for ever. The Lord will wipe away the tears from every cheek; he will take away his people’s shame everywhere on earth, for the Lord has

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   Readings Lectures Reflection A Shoot from the stock of Jesse A shoot springs from the stock of Jesse, a scion thrusts from his roots: on him the spirit of the Lord rests, a spirit of wisdom and insight, a spirit of counsel and power, a spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. (The fear of the Lord is his breath.) He does not judge by appearances, he gives no verdict on hearsay, but judges the wretched with integrity, and with equity gives a verdict for the poor of the land. His word is a rod that