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Daily Offering: November 22, 2025 | I Was Not Ashamed

A long empty stone hall in mid-morning daylight with an open doorway at the far end, illustrating the propers for St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr

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 […]