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Daily Offering: December 5, 2025 | Any Merits of Ours

The view from a bare stone cell at dawn onto a dry rocky ravine, a reed mat and clay cup on the floor

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 […]