Opening Address Imitate what we commemorate. Four words out of the middle of a prayer almost nobody hears, said quietly over bread and wine before anything happens to them, and I have not been able to put them down since I read them. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however this Wednesday finds you. Certain […]
Tag Archives: inclusive faith
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address With free minds. That is the phrase the Church hands us this morning, three words near the end of a prayer most people will never hear, and I want to spend the whole morning on it. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however today finds you. Rested or wrecked, certain of God or […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address And coming down with them, he stood in a plain place. Luke gives us one clause, eight words long, and the whole feast turns on it. He came down. He stood in a plain place. Beloved, grace and peace to you this Monday morning, whatever you are carrying into the week. Bloom asks […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace. That is not an invitation. It is an instruction, and the word sitting in the middle of it has no business being there. Confidence. Beloved, grace and peace to you this Saturday morning, however you have arrived: steady or shaking, praying for […]
21
Aug
Aug
Opening Address The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Hidden. That one word is where this whole morning starts, and everything after it follows from it. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however you arrive at this hour: rested or wrung out, praying easily or not praying at all, […]
20
Aug
Aug
Opening Address He will pour forth the words of his wisdom as showers. That is today’s promise about a holy man, and the whole day hangs on one word in it. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however you arrive this morning: steady or scattered, praying easily or not praying at all, three years into […]
19
Aug
Aug
Opening Address New religious families—that is the Church’s own phrase, in today’s prayer, and I want to sit with it all morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however you come to this: rested or wrecked, sure of God or sure of nothing, held by the people you were born to or held by people […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Stand her ground—that is what today’s prayer asks for the Church, in those words, and it is a stranger request than it first sounds. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning—however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out elsewhere. Bloom is not a room you […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address St. Hyacinth spent roughly thirty-seven years walking, and that fact is the door into everything today’s Mass is saying. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning—however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out elsewhere. Bloom is not a room you have to earn your way […]
16
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and today it opens on four words that indict a great deal of religion: the letter killeth. 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 this tradition […]