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Daily Offering: August 15, 2026 | Blessed Art Thou That Hast Believed

Blessed art thou that hast believed — two women's hands clasped in a sunlit stone doorway

Opening Address Blessed art thou that hast believed—six words spoken by one pregnant woman to another in a hill town, and the reason the Church gives us this Gospel today of all days. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut […]

Daily Offering: December 8, 2025 | The Glory of Jerusalem

An open stone town gate at midmorning, illustrating the glory of Jerusalem in the Immaculate Conception Gradual

Oppening Address The glory of Jerusalem is a title, and titles have a history. Today the Church says it to a girl in Nazareth who has not yet answered the angel, and it is worth knowing where the Church got the sentence. It did not compose it for her. It found it already in use, […]