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Thomas Pastorius

@frtompastorius

I am a Catholic Priest of the Archdioce of St. Louis and I am curretly the pastor of Epiphany of Our Lord Parish. mayjesuschristbepraised.com

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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie

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Our temptation is to let needs for success, visibility, and influence dominate our thoughts, words, and actions to such an extent that we are gripped in the destructive spiral of upward mobility and thus lose our vocation. – Nouwen

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St. Joseph was chosen among all men, 2b the protector & guardian of the Virgin Mother of God; the defender & foster-father of the Infant-God, & the only co-operator upon earth, the one confidant of the secret of God in the work of the redemption of mankind.-Bernard of Clairvaux

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Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him. - Michelangelo

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Let us carefully observe the way of life of all, martyrs, & saints who announced the coming of the Lord. & let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, & perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory-John of Damascus

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Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, & death in the world. He brings healing & hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, & emerges with new life -N T Wright

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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth. - Thomas Aquinas

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Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. - Mother Teresa

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The Lord did not create suffering. Pain & death came into the world w/ the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union w/ God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God-Thomas Merton

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The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. - Thomas Merton

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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here. - Saint Augustine

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When u get measured @ doctor's office, they don't use a random stick? Hopefully not. If they did, you might be 3½ sticks tall in 1 doctor's office & 12 sticks tall in another. When it comes 2 measuring self-worth, many people use something just as unreliable as a random stick.