RELIGION AND ART

THURS DAY   THIRD  WEEK 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.  Reading   Lectures   Reflection Isaiah 54:1-10 With great love I will take you back Shout for joy, you barren women who bore no children!   Break into cries of joy and gladness, you who were never in labour! For the sons of the forsaken one are more in

WEDNESDAY   THIRD  WEEK 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 Isaiah 45:6-8,18,21-25 I, the Lord, shall create deliverance Apart from me, all is nothing. I am the Lord, unrivalled, I form the light and create the dark.  I make good fortune and create calamity, it

PRAYER BEFORE HOLY MAS S     Act of Love before Mass    TUESDAY THIRD WEEK IN ADVENT YEAR C   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    Saint John of the Cross First Reading Zephaniah 3:1-2,9-13   All peoples shall invoke the Lord's name and serve him Trouble is coming to the rebellious, the defiled, the tyrannical city! She would never listen t

THIRD 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 Zephaniah 3 :14-18 The Lord, the king of Israel, is in your midst Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, Israel, shout aloud! Rejoice, exult with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem! The Lord has repealed your sente