Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and Paul spends this morning’s Lesson telling a congregation to stop the trial they have already started, so judge not before the time. This is the Fourth Sunday of Advent, first class, violet, the last Sunday the Church will give us before the feast. We offer this Mass in the […]
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Dec
Dec
Opening Address Friday of the Ember week in Advent, and the Church puts two arrivals in front of us before it says anything else. Isaias promises a shoot coming up out of a stump somebody cut down. Luke sends a young woman up into the hill country in a hurry, and when she gets where […]
17
Dec
Dec
Opening Address Advent has been running one formulary for days at a time, and this morning it stops and does something it does not do in any ordinary week. Two Lessons are read instead of one, each with its own Collect and its own Gradual, and the second of them ends with a sentence the […]
30
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and the Church’s instruction for the first morning of a new year is to put on the armour of light. Not to take stock, not to strip down, not to begin again from nothing—to get dressed. This is the First Sunday of Advent, the vestments are violet, and a new […]
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 […]
25
Oct
Oct
Opening Address Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it — that’s Christ’s own answer today to a woman shouting the loudest compliment she can think of, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive […]
20
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 […]
18
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 […]