RELIGION AND ART

WEDNESDAY WEEK 22 IN ORDINARY TIME: HE WOULD NOT ALLOW THEM TO SPEAK: THEY KNEW HE WAS THE CHRIST Reading 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 Neither the planter nor the waterer matters,  only God, who makes things grow Brothers, I myself was unable to speak to you as people of the Spirit: I treated you as sensual men, still infants in Christ. What I fed you with was milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it; and indeed, you are still not ready for it since you are still unspiritual. Isn’t that obvious from all the jealousy and wrangling that there is among you, from the way that you go on behaving like ordinary people? What could be more unspiritual than your slogans, ‘I am for Paul’ and ‘I am for Apollos’?  After all, what is Apollos and what is Paul? They are servants who brought the faith to you. Even the different ways in which they brought it were assigned to them by the Lord. I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God made things grow. Neither the planter nor the waterer ma

TUESDAY WEEK 22 IN ORDIARY TIME Reading 1 Corinthians 2:10-16  The Spirit reaches even the depths of God The Spirit reaches the depths of everything, even the depths of God. After all, the depths of a man can only be known by his own spirit, not by any other man, and in the same way the depths of God can only be known by the Spirit of God. Now instead of the spirit of the world, we have received the Spirit that comes from God, to teach us to understand the gifts that he has given us. Therefore we teach, not in the way in which philosophy is taught, but in the way that the Spirit teaches us: we teach spiritual things spiritually. An unspiritual person is one who does not accept anything of the Spirit of God: he sees it all as nonsense; it is beyond his understanding because it can only be understood by means of the Spirit. A spiritual man, on the other hand, is able to judge the value of everything, and his own value is not to be judged by other men. As scripture says:  Who can know the

MONDAY WEEK 22 IN ORDINARY TIME Reading Jeremiah : 17-19 You tell them all I command you;  do not be dismayed at their presence   The word of the Lord was addressed to me, saying: ‘Brace yourself for action. Stand up and tell them all I command you. Do not be dismayed at their presence, or in their presence I will make you dismayed. ‘I, for my part, today will make you into a fortified city, a pillar of iron, and a wall of bronze to confront all this land: the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests and the country people.  They will fight against you but shall not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver you, – it is the Lord who speaks.’ Your Birthday Feast: The Beheading of John the Baptist . May today’s Feast blessings be yours as you celebrate your birthday.    Pray the Holy Rosary: Hail Mary. Hail Holy Queen Lord Jesus Christ I trust in you. Blessed  Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. God's Holy Angels and Saints pray for me. My Angel Guardian pray

22ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C Reading from the book of Ecclesiasticus 3:19-21,30-31 Behave humbly, and you will find favour with the Lord My son, be gentle in carrying out your business, and you will be better loved than a lavish giver.  The greater you are, the more you should behave humbly, and then you will find favour with the Lord; for great though the power of the Lord is, he accepts the homage of the humble. There is no cure for the proud man’s malady, since an evil growth has taken root in him. The heart of a sensible man will reflect on parables,  an attentive ear is the sage’s dream. Readinsgs Reflections Pray the Holy Rosary: Hail Mary. Hail Holy Queen Lord Jesus Christ I trust in you. Blessed  Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. God's Holy Angels and Saints pray for me. My Angel Guardian pray for me. Defend and protect me. Guide and guard me. Your Birthday Saint:  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Bishop . May he pray for you as you celebrate your birthda