Opening Address How beautiful are the feet. That is where the Epistle arrives this morning, and getting there takes four questions in a row, each one moving the answer a step further from the person you started with. How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed. How shall they believe him […]
Tag Archives: Psalm 118
02
Dec
Dec
Opening Address The Introit this morning does something a liturgy almost never does: it measures something and reports the dimension rather than passing a verdict. Two clauses, side by side, and each one gets a size. I have seen an end to all persecution—that is the first, and it puts a limit on the harm. […]
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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Saturday, the twenty-second of November, and the Church keeps St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr, third class. Before a single reading, before the saint is so much as described, the entrance chant hands us four words about somebody’s standing: I was not ashamed. The day the temporal calendar […]