Opening Address Unrecognized by your own family — St. Alexius knew that pain in the most literal way a person can know it, and it’s worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut […]
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Opening Address Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates. That is the last line of a twenty-two verse poem, and it is not addressed to her. It is an instruction to everybody else in the room. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however you come […]