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Daily Offering: November 29, 2025 | The Anniversary of the Death

A plain wall calendar on whitewashed plaster with one late-November date faintly circled in pencil, illustrating the commemoration of Saint Saturninus and the keeping of a date year after year

Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Saturday, the twenty-ninth of November, and it is the last day of the Church’s year. Tomorrow is the First Sunday of Advent and the whole calendar begins again. The final entry before it is a Saturday with no feast of its own, handed to Our Lady, with […]

Daily Offering: November 21, 2025 | Presented in the Temple

Worn stone steps rising to an open doorway in strong midday light, illustrating the Collect of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Friday, the twenty-first of November, and the Church keeps the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, third class, in white. The day the temporal calendar names is the Friday after the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, and that feria is not commemorated at all. There is no other […]

Daily Offering: November 8, 2025 | Delivered From Present Sorrow

An old cedar with exposed roots holding a dry-stone wall in late-morning light, illustrating the Lesson in which Wisdom says she took root in an honourable people

Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Saturday, the eighth of November, and the calendar has nothing of its own to put here. When a Saturday in this stretch of the year comes up empty, the Church hands it to Our Lady, so the vestments are white and the Mass is the fifth Mass […]