Opening Address Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. That is the first thing said this morning, and everything else in the passage comes after it. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however you arrive at this hour: rested or worn through, praying easily or not praying […]
Tag Archives: inclusive faith
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Nov
Nov
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 […]
02
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and today it opens on four words that the Gospel puts in two different mouths: have patience with me. 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 […]
01
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Let us all rejoice in the Lord, celebrating a feast day in honour of all the Saints. All of them. One morning, one Mass, and a congregation which no man could number. Beloved, grace and peace to you this Saturday, however you have come to be reading: certain, unravelling, or trying the first […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Serve thee with a quiet mind — the Collect doesn’t ask for the adversity itself to vanish first, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Fillest every living creature with blessing — not the deserving, not the grateful, not the ones who ask the right way, just every living creature, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, […]
29
Oct
Oct
Opening Address Redeeming the time — Paul’s instruction for exactly the kind of days that don’t make it easy, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out […]
28
Oct
Oct
Opening Address Chosen you out of the world — that’s the reason Christ gives his apostles for why the world will hate them, and it’s worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Your son lives — four words spoken from a distance, about a body the speaker never touches, and it’s worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out […]
26
Oct
Oct
Opening Address My kingdom is not of this world — that’s Christ’s own answer, standing bound in front of the one man in the room with actual worldly power to kill him, and it’s the whole of what we gather to consider today. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive […]