Opening Address Hippolytus and Cassian are the two names on today’s calendar, and the first thing worth knowing about them is that they never met. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning—however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out elsewhere. Bloom is not a room you have […]
Author Archives: Pastora Tori Matthews
12
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Oil in their vessels—four words that separate one half of today’s Gospel from the other half, and they’re worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out elsewhere. Bloom is not […]
11
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Of more value than many sparrows — that’s Christ’s own measure of worth, spoken to people who had every reason to fear their worth was about to be tested by death itself, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive […]
10
Aug
Aug
Opening Address God loveth a cheerful giver — that’s the specific praise Paul offers, and on the feast of a deacon famous for giving away everything he was ever asked to protect, it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or […]
09
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Be thou opened — that’s the last word of a whole week’s worth of readings about doors, chains, and lamps kept lit, and it lands today as the deepest version of them all. Bloom’s Sunday Mass, offered today in the Independent Catholic tradition — not affiliated with or recognized by the Roman Catholic […]
08
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Open to him immediately — that’s the specific instruction Christ gives about what to do the moment the knock actually comes, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut […]
07
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Lamps burning in your hands — that’s the specific image Christ gives for the kind of waiting He actually wants from us, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or […]
06
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Eyewitnesses of his greatness — that’s how Peter describes what happened on the mountain, decades later, still insisting it wasn’t a story he’d made up. It’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed […]
05
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it — that’s Christ’s own answer when a woman in the crowd praises His mother in the most physical terms available to her, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however […]
04
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Found watching — that’s the specific condition Christ names as blessed in today’s Gospel, and what happens next is stranger and more generous than most readers expect. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out elsewhere. Bloom is not a […]