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Daily Offering: November 21, 2025 | Presented in the Temple

Worn stone steps rising to an open doorway in strong midday light, illustrating the Collect of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Friday, the twenty-first of November, and the Church keeps the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, third class, in white. The day the temporal calendar names is the Friday after the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, and that feria is not commemorated at all. There is no other […]

Daily Offering: November 8, 2025 | Delivered From Present Sorrow

An old cedar with exposed roots holding a dry-stone wall in late-morning light, illustrating the Lesson in which Wisdom says she took root in an honourable people

Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Saturday, the eighth of November, and the calendar has nothing of its own to put here. When a Saturday in this stretch of the year comes up empty, the Church hands it to Our Lady, so the vestments are white and the Mass is the fifth Mass […]

Daily Offering: October 21, 2025 | All Things and Followed Thee

Left all things and followed thee — a lone traveler's road leading toward a distant horizon

Opening Address Left all things, and followed Thee — Peter’s own words to Christ, and the whole shape of the life a fifteen-year-old orphan chose in the deserts outside Gaza seventeen centuries ago. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or […]