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Daily Offering: November 28, 2025 | Thou Hast Saved Us

Thou hast saved us — a plain wooden field gate standing wide open at the end of a frosted track under flat late-November daylight

Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, and the psalm sung between the readings this morning opens with a finished sentence: thou hast saved us. Not save us. Not thou wilt save us one day when the paperwork is done. Today is a fourth-class feria in green, with no saint, no feast and no commemoration […]

Daily Offering: November 18, 2025 | This Place Was Made by God

This place was made by God—a single upright stone standing on wide open ground under a high midday sky, no building in sight

Opening Address Good morning, and grace and peace to you. Today’s Gradual says six words about the room you are standing in, whatever room that is: this place was made by God. It says it about a Roman basilica and it says it about a borrowed upstairs room with a kettle in the corner, in […]