Opening Address Advent goes violet for most of a month, and this morning a martyr’s red is laid across it for one day. The Church keeps St. Eusebius of Vercelli, a bishop who spent years of his life in exile a long way from the city he was given, and the Lesson it hands him […]
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Dec
Dec
Oppening Address Today the Church keeps St. Lucy, and the first thing worth saying about her Mass is that almost none of it is hers. The Introit is a psalm written for a king. The Lesson is Paul writing to Corinth about his own credentials. The Gospel is the one the Church reads over half […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Peace be to this house — the very first thing Christ tells His messengers to say when they arrive somewhere with nothing else to offer, and a fitting way to open a morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you today — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere […]