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Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

People both inside and outside the Catholic Church

sometimes seem to get it in their heads that the Church is

getting in the way of their relationship with Christ. They think they can be close

to Christ yet have nothing to do with the church.

Some people even go as far to say,

I believe in Jesus, but not in an organized religion I believe in a purely

spiritual religion but that's not how it works because Jesus and the Church are inseparably connected. Jesus

calls the Church's kingdom and a relationship with him means entrance into that kingdom.

St Paul goes even further and calls the church the body of Christ.

And you can't accept a person while at the same time rejecting their body.

Our Father who art in heaven, hollow would be your name?

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver

us from evil, Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death,

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