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Daily Offering: November 12, 2025 | Not by Constraint

Painterly illustration of sheep grazing on an open hillside at midday with a wooden field gate standing wide open

Opening Address The Church has one instruction for a shepherd, and today it gives that instruction three times before the homily starts. Feed my lambs, feed my sheep, says the Introit. Feed the flock of God which is among you, says the Epistle, not by constraint, but willingly. Three imperatives and one adverb, and the […]