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Welcome to May Jesus Christ Be Praised. Com
Welcome to my little website. When I was a newly ordained priest, my first pastor gave me a full page in the parish bulletin to fill each week. He told me he did not care what I wrote about as long as I filled the page. He explained that only 1/3 of the parish would hear me preach on any given Sunday because I celebrated two out of six parish Masses but every parishioner would read the bulletin so this was a way that I could reachout to them and they could get to know me better. After four years in the parish, I was transferred to another parish and as I was leaving many people asked me to send them my weekly bulletin column by e-mail and thus my internet ministry was born.
When I was trying to decide what to write about in my weekly bulletin article, I came across a quote from Archbishop Fulton Sheen that went something like "There are not a hundred people in the world who hate the Catholic Church for what we teach but there are thousands who hate the Catholic Church for what they think we teach." With that quote in mind, I began to choose oen topic a month to explain more indepth the Church's teaching on those issues. From those mustardseeds has blossomed this website filled with infomation about the Catholic faith that I find interesting and informative. I invite you to take your time and explore the different teachings and reflections. I hope above all that these things will ultimately lead you closer to God.
Thank you and God bless,
Fr. Thomas M. Pastorius
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Today's Readings
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Reading 1 Ez 37:21-28Responsorial Psalm Jeremiah 31:10, 11-12abcd, 13Gospel Jn 11:45-56
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Pro-Life Prayer of the Month
Prayer for People to Answer the Call to be People of Justice
God of life and love, you created us in your image and sent your Son to bring us life. Instill in us a respect for all life, from conception to natural death. Empower us to work for justice for the poor. Nourish us that we may bring food to the hungry. Inspire us to cherish the fragile life of the unborn. Strengthen us to bring comfort to the chronically ill. Teach us to treat the aging with dignity and respect. Bring us one day into the glory of everlasting life. We ask through Christ our Lord. Amen. -
St. Monica Society Prayer For Fallen Away Catholics
Eternal and merciful Father, I give you thanks for the gift of Your Divine Son who suffered, died and rose from the dead for all people. I thank You also for my Catholic Faith and ask Your help that I may grow in fidelity by prayer, by works of charity, and by Penance and the Holy Eucharist.
Inspired by confidence in Your power to move hearts and by the success of prayer, I pray for (N) who no longer share(s) in the intimate life of your
Catholic family. Grant through my prayer and witness that (she/he/they) may be open to the promptings of the HOLY SPIRIT to return to the loving union with Your people. Grant also that my prayer be ever hopeful and that I may never judge another, for You alone can read hearts. I ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen
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Personal Penance Services
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Stations of the Cross For Priests
This book allows a Catholic priest to travel with our Lord to Calvary in a special way as he also ponders his own ministry and experiences as a Catholic priest.
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