{"id":2242,"date":"2026-08-18T06:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/?page_id=2242"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:50:02","slug":"start-here","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/start-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section bf-threshold bf-img-1\" id=\"section_1541398400\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-479087094\">\n\t<div id=\"col-2119321410\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1377517952\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<!-- BLOOM_IMAGE_NEEDED: a door standing open on a dark corridor, warm light spilling out across a stone floor, nobody in the frame --><br \/>\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow\">START HERE<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"bf-h1\">You can arrive with nothing.<span class=\"bf-turn\">Not even a belief.<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\">Faith in Bloom keeps the Roman Rite of 1962 and opens it to the people it was closed to. Worship is published here every day, all nine sacraments are offered, and you can read for months before you say a word to anyone. Nothing has a fee, and nothing requires you to be out to a single person.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-actions\" style=\"margin-top:40px\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/new\/what-to-expect\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-primary\">What actually happens <span class=\"bf-arrow\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost\">Ask a question<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1541398400 {\n  padding-top: 90px;\n  padding-bottom: 90px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1541398400 {\n    padding-top: 150px;\n    padding-bottom: 150px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-doorssec\" id=\"section_2103978343\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-866239720\">\n\t<div id=\"col-680979330\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-4185412376\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">SEVEN WAYS IN<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">Pick the one that <em>matches why you came.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-doors bf-doors-3\">\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/new\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">I<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>New Here?<\/h3>\n<p>For anyone who has not been inside a church in years, or ever. What happens, what is asked of you, and what is not.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">Start &rarr;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/worship\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">II<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Worship<\/h3>\n<p>The Daily Offering runs Monday through Saturday. Sunday Mass takes that day. Both are read, not attended.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">See the pattern &rarr;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/sacraments\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">III<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Sacraments<\/h3>\n<p>Nine of them, kept in the old books, offered without the conditions other parishes attach to your existence.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">All nine &rarr;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/support\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">IV<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Support<\/h3>\n<p>Groups, pastoral care, grief, and the particular wound of having been thrown out of a church.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">Find help &rarr;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">V<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Ask<\/h3>\n<p>One question, plain words, no account. The Office of the Ordinary reads every petition personally.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">Ask anything &rarr;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/give\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">VI<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Give<\/h3>\n<p>For people who already have what they need and want someone else to have it too. Giving buys nothing.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">How giving works &rarr;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/canon\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">VII<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Church of Bloom<\/h3>\n<p>The documents underneath all of it: what this church believes, where it stands, how it governs itself.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bf-door-go\">Read the record &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_2103978343 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_2103978343 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-numbersec bf-light\" id=\"section_2021455328\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-449373518\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1978999076\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-912419174\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">WHAT CAN BE COUNTED<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">A record you can check <em>instead of taking on trust.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-numbers\">\n<div class=\"bf-num\">\n<div class=\"bf-num-v\">168<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num-l\">Daily Offerings<br \/>published<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num\">\n<div class=\"bf-num-v\">360<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num-l\">Days without<br \/>a break<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num\">\n<div class=\"bf-num-v\">26<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num-l\">Sunday Masses<br \/>offered<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num\">\n<div class=\"bf-num-v\">12<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-num-l\">Canonical instruments<br \/>on file<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_2021455328 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_2021455328 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-splitsec\" id=\"section_1674076416\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1007014161\">\n\t<div id=\"col-589235196\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2558543825\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-split bf-split-wide\">\n<div class=\"bf-split-media bf-img-2\"><span class=\"bf-ph\">The 1962<br \/>missal<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">WHAT THIS CHURCH IS<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">An old rite, <em>an open door.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-p\">The Church of Bloom is an Independent Catholic body of the Roman Rite in the books of 1962, erected 17 October 2025 under the patronage of St. Mary Magdalene, Apostle to the Apostles. Its canonical framework is the 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code. The liturgy is kept unaltered, word for word, from the same books a traditional parish uses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-p\">It is not in communion with Rome. It claims no Roman faculties, no Roman jurisdiction, and no Roman recognition of its orders, and it says so on every page where you might otherwise assume it. An affirming Catholic church that let you guess about that would already be lying to you about something larger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-p\">What is different here is who is admitted, not what is said. Nothing in the rite has been softened for the sake of the people it welcomes, because nothing in the rite ever excluded them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1674076416 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1674076416 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-railsec\" id=\"section_805544543\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-412792109\">\n\t<div id=\"col-251187916\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-254036742\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">WHAT RUNS, WEEK IN AND WEEK OUT<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">Worship you can read <em>at any hour you are awake.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-rail-h\">\n<a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/worship\/daily-offering\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-card-img bf-img-3 bf-card-img-16\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Monday to Saturday<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-card-b\">\n<div class=\"bf-card-date\">Every day since 17 October 2025<\/div>\n<h4>The Daily Offering<\/h4>\n<p>A low-Mass form in text, published without a break. It is not a Mass and is never called one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/worship\/sunday-mass\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-card-img bf-img-4 bf-card-img-16\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Sundays<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-card-b\">\n<div class=\"bf-card-date\">Each Sunday<\/div>\n<h4>Sunday Mass<\/h4>\n<p>The Roman Rite of 1962, offered within this church&#8217;s own tradition. It replaces that day&#8217;s Offering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/liturgy\/calendar\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-card-img bf-img-5 bf-card-img-16\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">The year<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-card-b\">\n<div class=\"bf-card-date\">Season by season<\/div>\n<h4>The calendar<\/h4>\n<p>Feasts, colours, and the saints this church keeps. Including several the record has been quiet about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/liturgy\/what-you-need\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-card-img bf-img-6 bf-card-img-16\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Practical<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-card-b\">\n<div class=\"bf-card-date\">Before you begin<\/div>\n<h4>What you need<\/h4>\n<p>Almost nothing. A screen and a few minutes. No book to buy and no posture to hold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-rail-hint\">Drag or scroll sideways &nbsp;&rarr;<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_805544543 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_805544543 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-declsec bf-light\" id=\"section_667764405\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-157675711\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1811495891\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2719436847\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-decl\">\n<p class=\"bf-decl-art\">On what is asked of you at the door<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-decl-t\">Nothing is asked of you at the door. Not a name, not a donation, not a statement of belief, not a disclosure of who you are to anyone who does not already know. <em>You may read here for a year and remain a stranger, and the door stays exactly as open on the last day as it was on the first.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_667764405 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_667764405 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-todaysec\" id=\"section_1812303644\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-2030449422\">\n\t<div id=\"col-430151417\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-3343700318\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-today-grid\">\n<div class=\"bf-today-card\">\n<div class=\"bf-today-date\">Where the church is standing today<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-today-feast\">Time after Pentecost<\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-today-meta\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Liturgical colour: Green<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-today-quote\">&#8220;He saith to them: Come and see. They came, and saw where he abode, and they stayed with him that day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/liturgy\/calendar\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost\">The full calendar<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">THE CHURCH KEEPS TIME<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">The season is <em>already running without you.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-p\">Every day of the year has a colour, a rank, and a set of texts fixed long before anyone here was born. That is the point of a calendar: it does not wait for you to feel ready, and it does not stop when you drop out for eleven years. You step back into it wherever it happens to be standing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-p\">The date above is computed from the calendar of 1962 and updates on its own. If you want to know what this church is reading tonight, the Daily Offering is the answer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1812303644 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1812303644 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-faqsec bf-light\" id=\"section_502311701\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-912726789\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1432555537\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2310339040\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">THE QUESTIONS PEOPLE ARRIVE WITH<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">Asked plainly, <em>answered the same way.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion bf-faq\">\n\t<div id=\"accordion-3783523876\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-3783523876-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-do-i-need-to-believe-in-god-for-any-of-this-to-matter?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-3783523876-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Do I need to believe in God for any of this to matter?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-3783523876-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-3783523876-label\">\n\t\t\tNo. People arrive here from anger, from grief, from curiosity, and from nothing at all, and the door does not sort them. Belief is more often what worship produces over years than what it requires on the first night. Read the Offering tonight and decide nothing.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-406454510\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-406454510-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-is-this-actually-catholic?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-406454510-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Is this actually Catholic?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-406454510-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-406454510-label\">\n\t\t\tYes, in rite, sacraments, and discipline. The Church of Bloom is Independent Catholic: it keeps the Roman Rite of 1962 unaltered and the 1917 Code as its framework, and it is not in communion with Rome, claiming no Roman faculties, jurisdiction, or recognition of its orders. Both halves of that sentence are true at once, and the second half is stated rather than blurred.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-698409576\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-698409576-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-am-i-safe-here-as-a-trans-person?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-698409576-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Am I safe here as a trans person?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-698409576-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-698409576-label\">\n\t\t\tYes, and that is written into the instruments rather than promised in a paragraph. Your existence is not a subject of debate, not matter for confession, and not a condition on any sacrament. The name you use is the name entered in the register, in the entry itself.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-3617396846\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-3617396846-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-what-does-it-cost?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-3617396846-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>What does it cost?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-3617396846-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-3617396846-label\">\n\t\t\tNothing has a fee &mdash; no sacrament, no preparation, no record, no certificate, no group. Money questions go to the form on the Ask page and are handled nowhere near pastoral care.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-1377440417\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-1377440417-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-do-i-have-to-join-anything?\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-1377440417-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>Do I have to join anything?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-1377440417-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-1377440417-label\">\n\t\t\tNo. Most people who read here have joined nothing and asked for nothing, and that is a complete way to be part of an affirming Catholic church. Enrolment exists if you want it, and it stays where you left it if you do not.\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_502311701 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_502311701 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-ctasec\" id=\"section_1726361861\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-184779895\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1384030491\" class=\"col medium-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-4174381382\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow\">THE FIRST STEP<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">You are already<br \/><em>inside the door.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\" style=\"margin:0 auto 36px\">Reading this page was the whole of it. If you want a next thing, read what actually happens here, or write one sentence to the Chancery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-actions\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/new\/what-to-expect\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-primary\">What to expect <span class=\"bf-arrow\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost\">Ask a question<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1726361861 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1726361861 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2242\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}