RELIGION AND ART

FATHER  HEAR THE ENTREATY OF YOUR SERVANT MONNDAY WEEK 5 IN ORDINARY : TIME M Y DAILY OFFERING  O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world.  Reading s I offer them for all the intentions of your Sacred Heart: the salvation of souls, reparation for sin, the union of all Christians. I offer them for the intentions of our Bishops and all Apostles of prayer, and in particular for those recommended by our holy Father Pope Francis this month.   Pieta  Lectures   Reflection First Reading  1 Kings 8:22-23,27-30   'Listen to the prayer your servant makes in this place' In the presence of the whole assembly of Israel, Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord and, stretching out his hands towards heaven, said: ‘O Lord, God of Israel, not in heaven above nor on earth beneath is there such a God as you, true to your covenant and your kindness towards your se

THE GLORY OF THE LORD THE TEMPLE MONNDAY WEEK 5 IN ORDINARY : TIME M Y DAILY OFFERING  O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world.  Readings I offer them for all the intentions of your Sacred Heart: the salvation of souls, reparation for sin, the union of all Christians. I offer them for the intentions of our Bishops and all Apostles of prayer, and in particular for those recommended by our holy Father Pope Francis this month.   Pieta  Lectures   Reflection First Reading  1 Kings 8:1-7,9-13  The Ark of the Covenant is brought into the Temple Solomon called the elders of Israel together in Jerusalem to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord up from the Citadel of David, which is Zion. All the men of Israel assembled round King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, at the time of the feast (that is, the seventh month), and the priests took up the ark and th

I AM A SINFUL MAN S UNDAY WEEK 5 IN ORDINARY : TIME M Y DAILY OFFERING  O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world.  Readings I offer them for all the intentions of your Sacred Heart: the salvation of souls, reparation for sin, the union of all Christians. I offer them for the intentions of our Bishops and all Apostles of prayer, and in particular for those recommended by our holy Father Pope Francis this month.   Pieta  Lectures   Reflection First Reading Isaiah 6:1-2,3-8 'Here I am: send me' In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord of Hosts seated on a high throne; his train filled the sanctuary; above him stood seraphs, each one with six wings.  And they cried out to one another in this way, ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts. His glory fills the whole earth.’ The foundations of the threshold shook with the voice of the one wh

LORD TEACH ME YOUR STATUTES  S ATUR DAY WEEK IV IN ORDINARY  TIME     M Y DAILY OFFERING    O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world.  Readings PRAYER FOR DAILY NEGLECTS:   Eternal Father, I offer thee the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with all its Love, all its sufferings and all its merits. Lectures First: To expiate all the sins I have committed this day and during all my life. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit…… Second: To purify the good I have done badly this day and during all my life. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit…… Reflection Third: To supply for the good I ought to have done, and that I have neglected this day and during all my life, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit……  Pieta Saint Agatha First Reading 1 Kings 3:4-13    Solomon chooses the gift of wisdom King S