RELIGION AND ART

TUESDAY THE   1ST WEEK OF ADVENT YEAR C PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S     Act of Love before Mass   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.   Readings   Lectures Reflection St. Andrew Apostle   First Reading Romans 10:9-18 Faith comes from what is preached, and what is preached comes from the word of Christ  If your lips confess that Jesus is Lord and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, then you will be saved. By believing from the heart you are made righteous; by confessing with your lips you are saved. When

MONDAY THE   1ST WEEK OF ADVENT YEAR C PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S     Act of Love before Mass   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 Isaiah 2:1-5 The Lord gathers all nations together  into the eternal peace of God's kingdom The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem. In the days to come the mountain of the

1ST SUNDAY IN ADVENT YEAR C PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S     Act of Love before Mass   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 Jeremiah 33:14-16 I will make a virtuous Branch grow for David See, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks –  when I am going to fulfil the promise I made to the House of Israel and the House of Judah:  ‘In

PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S     Act of Love before Mass    MEMORIAL OF BLESSED VIRGIN MARY SATURDAY 34TH WEEK  IN  ORDINARY 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 Daniel 7:15-27 His sovereignty will be an eternal sovereignty I, Daniel, was deeply disturbed and the visions that passed through my head alarmed me. So I approached one of