Opening Address Feed my sheep. That is the whole of the order given in this morning’s Mass, and it is given three times before the Lesson has even begun. Today is white, in the middle of a violet fortnight, for a bishop of Rome who died on this day in 384. The Mass itself is […]
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Opening Address The Church has one instruction for a shepherd, and today it gives that instruction three times before the homily starts. Feed my lambs, feed my sheep, says the Introit. Feed the flock of God which is among you, says the Epistle, not by constraint, but willingly. Three imperatives and one adverb, and the […]