Opening Address Blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it—that is Christ’s own correction of a compliment, and it’s the sentence to carry into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut […]
Tag Archives: trans faith
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Jul
Jul
Opening Address Unrecognized by your own family — St. Alexius knew that pain in the most literal way a person can know it, and it’s worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut […]
THE DAILY OFFERING Opening Address Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out elsewhere. Bloom is not a room you have to earn your way into. Sit with us a moment, offered today in the spirit of a low […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Chosen you out of the world — that’s the reason Christ gives his apostles for why the world will hate them, and it’s worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, offered today in the Independent Catholic tradition — not affiliated with or recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, but standing in the same apostolic lineage, the same Roman Rite, the same devotion, held by a pastor for whom this tradition has always been home. Beloved, grace and peace to you […]