RELIGION AND ART

Lecture de la première lettre de saint Jean (2, 18-21) PEE « C’est de celui qui est saint que vous tenez l’onction, et vous avez tous la connaissance »   Mes enfants, c’est la dernière heure et, comme vous l’avez appris, un anti-Christ, un adversaire du Christ, doit venir ; or, il y a dès maintenant beaucoup d’anti-Christs ; nous savons ainsi que c’est la dernière heure. Ils sont sortis de chez nous mais ils n’étaient pas des nôtres ; s’ils avaient été des nôtres, ils seraient demeurés avec nous. Mais pas un d’entre eux n’est des nôtres, et cela devait être manifesté. Quant à vous, c’est de celui qui est saint que vous tenez l’onction, et vous avez tous la connaissance. Je ne vous ai pas écrit que vous ignorez la vérité, mais que vous la connaissez, et que de la vérité ne vient aucun mensonge.  Évangile selon saint Jean 1, 1-18 Le Verbe s’est fait chair RC Au commencement était le Verbe, et le Verbe était auprès de Dieu, et le Verbe était Dieu. Il était au commencement auprès

SATURDAY 31ST IN CHRISTMAS OCTAVE Reading 1 John 2:18-21 You have been anointed by the Holy One Children, these are the last days; you were told that an Antichrist must come, and now several antichrists have already appeared; we know from this that these are the last days. Those rivals of Christ came out of our own number, but they had never really belonged; if they had belonged, they would have stayed with us; but they left us, to prove that not one of them ever belonged to us. But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and have all received the knowledge. It is not because you do not know the truth that I am writing to you but rather because you know it already and know that no lie can come from the truth. Universalis   Gospel John 1:1-18 The Word was made flesh, and lived among us In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things came to be, not one thing had its being but through him. A

30TH DECEMBER IN CHRISTMAS OCTAVE  THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND THE RETURN TO NAZARETH Reading Ecclesiasticus 3:2-6,12-14   He who fears the Lord respects his parents Universalis The Lord honours the father in his children, and upholds the rights of a mother over her sons. Whoever respects his father is atoning for his sins, he who honours his mother is like someone amassing a fortune. Whoever respects his father will be happy with children of his own, he shall be heard on the day when he prays. Long life comes to him who honours his father, he who sets his mother at ease is showing obedience to the Lord. My son, support your father in his old age, do not grieve him during his life. Even if his mind should fail, show him sympathy, do not despise him in your health and strength; for kindness to a father shall not be forgotten   but will serve as reparation for your sins. The Gospel Matthew 2:13-15,19-23 The flight into Egypt and the return to Nazareth After the wise men had left, t

THURSDAY 29TH IN CHRISTMAS OCTAVE Reading 1 John 2:3-11   Anyone who loves his brother is living in the light We can be sure that we know God only by keeping his commandments. Anyone who says, ‘I know him’, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, refusing to admit the truth. But when anyone does obey what he has said, God’s love comes to perfection in him. We can be sure that we are in God only when the one who claims to be living in him is living the same kind of life as Christ lived. My dear people, this is not a new commandment that I am writing to tell you, but an old commandment that you were given from the beginning, the original commandment which was the message brought to you. Yet in another way, what I am writing to you, and what is being carried out in your lives as it was in his, is a new commandment; because the night is over and the real light is already shining.....   Gospel Luke 2:22-35 'You have prepared a light to enlighten the pagans'   When t