Opening Address He that stole, let him now steal no more — not a condemnation of someone’s past, but an instruction for what comes after it, and worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you today — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, […]
Tag Archives: Faith in Bloom
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Oct
Oct
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 […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Mercy exalteth itself above judgment — a line from today’s Epistle that a Polish professor took so seriously he gave away his own coat more than once, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, offered today in the Independent Catholic tradition — not affiliated with or recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, but standing in the same apostolic lineage, the same Roman Rite, the same devotion, held by a pastor for whom this tradition has always been home. Beloved, grace and peace to you […]
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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 […]
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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. […]