Opening Address The Church gives St. Sabbas three sentences this morning and gives him nothing else whatsoever, and the first of the three carries the phrase this offering is built on: what we may not have through any merits of ours. No Introit of his own. No Lesson, no chant, no Gospel. A man born […]
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Opening Address Advent’s first weekday does something the calendar rarely does out loud: it says yesterday again. The Mass of this Monday is the Mass of the First Sunday of Advent, unchanged, down to the last clause of the Secret, and the order standing in the middle of it is the same order it was […]

