St Joseph Catholic Church

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Saint Joseph Catholic Church Mountain View

Welcome to our Parish
St. Joseph Parish is a community of faith living the Gospel of Jesus Christ uniting people of many cultures in loving service to our sisters and brothers. Come and get involved.

6:45PM Tamil Mass (2nd Saturday of the month)

"Day and night, without pause, they sing: 'Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty.' " Revelation 4:8
We pray each day that God's "will be done on earth as it is in heaven" (Mt 6:10). In heaven, it's God's will that we praise Him "without pause" (Rv 4:8). When we pray the Our Father, we therefore pray that we would praise God on earth as He is praised in heaven. Each day of our lives then becomes a day of training in praise, a preparation for our destiny of giving eternal praise to the Lord (Eph 1:3, 12). Daily we can praise God:

in all circumstances,
with singing (Ps 92:2ff), music (Ps 150:3), and dancing (Ps 150:4),
with our family (Ps 96:7),
in the Mass, the ultimate joining of heaven to earth,
with every breath (Ps 150:6),
"seven times a day" (Ps 119:164), such as the Church does each day in the Liturgy of the Hours, and
using the spiritual gift of tongues, with which we utter "praise very well indeed" (1 Cor 14:17).

After a life of praising God (Ps 146:2), it will be second nature to us to enter God's heavenly "courts with praise" (Ps 100:4). "Praise the Lord!" (Ps 150:6)

Prayer: Lord, "let the high praises of God be in [our] throats" (Ps 149:6) and Your praise be always in our mouths (Ps 34:2).
Promise: "Whoever has will be given more, but the one who has not will lose the little he has." Lk 19:26
Praise: St. Elizabeth's life was a gift of praise as she gave up luxury and leisure to live a life of penance and caring for the sick.
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