RELIGION AND ART

PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MASS   Act of Love beforeMass   Saturday 22nd Week in Ord. Time O my God, I love Thee with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my strength and with no other desire than to be inseperably united to Thee. It is through Thy Divine Son that this union is about to be realized within me. In Holy Communion I long to identify myself with Him, that it will no longer be myself, but Him, who lives in me; and when I have received Jesus within myself, then I shall love and be loved by Thee in that same measure, in which I am united to Him. Hasten then, to give me Thy Divine Son, at the hands of Thy priest, that through Jesus, I may unite myself forever to Thee, O God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit.   The Readings   Lectures du jour   Reflection First Reading Colossians 1:21-23 God has reconciled you by Christ death in his mortal body Not long ago, you were foreigners and enemies, in the way that you used to think and the evil things that you did; but now he has

PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MASS   Act of Love beforeMass   Friday 22nd Week in Ord. Time O my God, I love Thee with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my strength and with no other desire than to be inseparably united to Thee. It is through Thy Divine Son that this union is about to be realized within me. In Holy Communion I long to identify myself with Him, that it will no longer be myself, but Him, who lives in me; and when I have received Jesus within myself, then I shall love and be loved by Thee in that same measure, in which I am united to Him. Hasten then, to give me Thy Divine Son, at the hands of Thy priest, that through Jesus, I may unite myself forever to Thee, O God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit.  The Readings   Lectures du jour   Reflection     Saint Gregory the Great Pope First Reading Colossians 1:15-20 All things were created through Christ and for Christ Christ Jesus is the image of the unseen God and the first-born of all creation, for in him were cr

PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S     Act of Love before Mass   THURSDAY 22ND WEEK   IN ORD. TIME O my God, I love Thee with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my strength and with no other desire than to be inseparably united to Thee. It is through Thy Divine Son that this union is about to be realized within me. In Holy Communion I long to identify myself with Him, that it will no longer be myself, but Him, who lives in me; and when I have received Jesus within myself, then I shall love and be loved by Thee in that same measure, in which I am united to Him. Hasten then, to give me Thy Divine Son, at the hands of Thy priest, that through Jesus, I may unite myself forever to Thee, O God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit.    Readings   Lectures   Reflection First Readings Colossians 1:9-14 God has taken us out of the power of darkness Ever since the day we heard about you, we have never failed to pray for you, and what we ask God is that through perfect wisdom and spiritual under

PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S     Act of Love before Mass   WEDNESDAY 22ND WEEK   IN ORD. TIME O my God, I love Thee with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my strength and with no other desire than to be inseparably united to Thee. It is through Thy Divine Son that this union is about to be realized within me. In Holy Communion I long to identify myself with Him, that it will no longer be myself, but Him, who lives in me; and when I have received Jesus within myself, then I shall love and be loved by Thee in that same measure, in which I am united to Him. Hasten then, to give me Thy Divine Son, at the hands of Thy priest, that through Jesus, I may unite myself forever to Thee, O God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit.  Readings Lectures Reflection First Reading Colossians 1:1-8 The message of truth has reached you and is spreading all over the world From Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Timothy to the saints in Colossae, our fai