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Daily Offering: November 18, 2025 | This Place Was Made by God

This place was made by God—a single upright stone standing on wide open ground under a high midday sky, no building in sight

Opening Address Good morning, and grace and peace to you. Today’s Gradual says six words about the room you are standing in, whatever room that is: this place was made by God. It says it about a Roman basilica and it says it about a borrowed upstairs room with a kettle in the corner, in […]

Sunday Mass: November 16, 2025 | Thoughts of Peace

Thoughts of peace — a dusty road running out through an open town gate at midday between low stone walls

Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and the Church opens this one by telling you what God is thinking about you: I think thoughts of peace, and not of affliction. We offer this Mass in the Independent Catholic tradition—not affiliated with or recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, but standing in the same Roman Rite, held […]