Tag Archives: Independent Catholic

Daily Offering: November 13, 2025 | He Hath Begun a Good Work in You

A half-turned wooden bowl left on a lathe in bright daylight, illustrating the promise that God hath begun a good work in you.

Opening Address Good morning, and welcome to the Daily Offering for Thursday, the thirteenth of November. Today is a fourth-class feria, green, the fifth weekday after the twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost, and it has no feast of its own. It takes that Sunday’s Mass entire, with one commemoration laid over it: St. Didacus, a Franciscan […]

Daily Offering: November 10, 2025 | Will Minister Unto Them

A long wooden kitchen table set with bread and bowls in morning light, chairs drawn back

Opening Address Today the Church keeps Andrew Avellino, a confessor, in white, and it hands him six verses about a household sitting up late. The instructions arrive first, and every one of them belongs to the servants. Then the sentence turns, and the man they have been waiting for takes the work out of their […]

Sunday Mass: November 9, 2025 | Could Not for the Crowd

Could not for the crowd — a sunlit stone street seen from high in the branches of a spreading sycamore tree

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 […]