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Daily Offering: August 29, 2026 | They Shall Fight Against Thee, and Shall Not Prevail

A sunlit ancient road between stone walls and olive trees with a worn milestone at the roadside

Opening Address Good morning. They shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail. That is what God says to Jeremias at the end of today’s Lesson, and the Church hands us that sentence on the morning it remembers a man whose head was carried out of a prison on a serving dish. Hold both of […]

Sunday Mass: August 09, 2026 | Be Thou Opened

Be thou opened — a wide open window with daylight and softly billowing curtains

Opening Address Be thou opened — that’s the last word of a whole week’s worth of readings about doors, chains, and lamps kept lit, and it lands today as the deepest version of them all. Bloom’s Sunday Mass, offered today in the Independent Catholic tradition — not affiliated with or recognized by the Roman Catholic […]