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Daily Offering: September 3, 2026 | We Might Have Been Burdensome

We might have been burdensome — a lake shore at dawn with a beached boat, drying nets, and a charcoal fire burned to embers beside a loaf

Opening Address We might have been burdensome. Five words out of the middle of this morning’s Lesson, written by a man setting out everything he could have taken and did not, and I have not been able to put them down. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however this Thursday finds you. Certain or unravelling, […]

Daily Offering: December 11, 2025 | Feed My Sheep

A long plain refectory table laid end to end with simple bowls in morning daylight

Opening Address Feed my sheep. That is the whole of the order given in this morning’s Mass, and it is given three times before the Lesson has even begun. Today is white, in the middle of a violet fortnight, for a bishop of Rome who died on this day in 384. The Mass itself is […]