RELIGION AND ART

THE REVELATION OF THE SON OF MAN  MONDAY 33RD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME  PRAYER BEFORE MASS    Go before us O Lord, in this our sacrifice of Prayer and Praise, and grant that we say and sing with our lips we may believe in our hearts, and practice and show forth in our daily lives. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. PRAYER AFTER MASS  Bless, O Lord, our hearts and minds, and grant that as we leave Your house, we may continue to be aware of Your presence. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.  by Saint John Berchmans, Patron Saint of Altar Boys    Readings   Lectures   Reflection   St. Cecilia  First Reading Daniel 1:1-6,8-20 Daniel and his companions   are trained to be the king's servants in Babylon In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched on Jerusalem and besieged it. The Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hands, with some of the furnishings of the Temple of God. He took them away to the land of Shinar, and stored the sacred

CHRIST THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE P RAYER BEFORE HOLY MASS Act of Love beforeMass   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 Christ the King First Reading Daniel 7:13-14 I saw, coming on the clouds of heaven, one like a son of man I gazed into the visions of the night. And I saw, coming on the clouds of heaven, one like a son of man. He came to the o

PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S     Act of Love before Mass   SATURDAY 33RD WEEK IN  ORDINARY TIME YEAR B   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   Frist Reading  1 Maccabees 6:1-13 I remember the wrong I did in Jerusalem King Antiochus was making his way across the upper provinces; he had heard that in Persia there was a city called Elymais, renowned for its

PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S     Act of Love before Mass   FRIDAY 33RD WEEK IN  ORDINARY TIME  YEAR B  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  1 Maccabees 4:36-37, 52-59 Judas and his brothers purify the sanctuary and dedicate its Judas and his brothers said, ‘Now that our enemies have been defeated, let us go up to purify the sanctuary and d