Opening Address We might have been burdensome. Five words out of the middle of this morning’s Lesson, written by a man setting out everything he could have taken and did not, and I have not been able to put them down. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however this Thursday finds you. Certain or unravelling, […]
Tag Archives: disability and faith
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address And coming down with them, he stood in a plain place. Luke gives us one clause, eight words long, and the whole feast turns on it. He came down. He stood in a plain place. Beloved, grace and peace to you this Monday morning, whatever you are carrying into the week. Bloom asks […]
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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Friday, the fourteenth of November. Today the Church keeps St. Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr, and hands him a Lesson that makes a strange claim about who is fit to stand at an altar: a high priest can deal gently with people who are ignorant and who go wrong for exactly one stated reason, […]
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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Good morning, and welcome to the Daily Offering for Thursday, the thirteenth of November. Today is a fourth-class feria, green, the fifth weekday after the twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost, and it has no feast of its own. It takes that Sunday’s Mass entire, with one commemoration laid over it: St. Didacus, a Franciscan […]
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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Most of the Church’s prayers open by naming something true about God and then ask for something on the strength of it. Today’s opens by naming something true about us. O God, Who see that we cannot survive by any power of our own. That is the ground of the whole prayer, and […]
09
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and today the Gospel says plainly why one man could not see Christ: he could not for the crowd. We offer this Mass in the Independent Catholic tradition—not affiliated with or recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, but standing in the same Roman Rite, held by a pastor for whom […]
04
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Everyone remembers the accounting. The master comes home, the servants line up, the sums are read out, and one man is thrown into the dark. What almost nobody remembers is the sentence the two commended men actually hear, which is not a score and not a ranking but this: faithful over a few […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address My yoke is sweet, and my burden light — Christ’s own words, and a strange enough promise to open the very first Daily Offering Bloom will ever publish. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out elsewhere. […]