{"id":2811,"date":"2026-08-18T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/?page_id=2200"},"modified":"2026-09-20T22:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:11:42","slug":"faith-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith in Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-threshold bf-img-1\" id=\"section_50670786\">\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-1536526315\">\n\t<div id=\"col-2054457344\" 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-3411724760\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<!-- BLOOM_IMAGE_NEEDED: a heavy church door standing open from the inside, low warm light spilling out onto stone, no people, shot from within the building looking out -->\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow\">Independent Catholic \u00b7 Roman Rite of 1962<\/span>\n<h1 class=\"bf-h1\">They locked the door.<span class=\"bf-turn\">We never had one.<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\">A church in the old rite, kept exactly as it was written, for the people it was used against. The Latin never needed changing. The welcome is ours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-actions\" style=\"margin-top:40px\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/today\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-primary\">Today&#8217;s offering <span class=\"bf-arrow\">\u2192<\/span><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/new\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost\">New here?<\/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_50670786 {\n  padding-top: 90px;\n  padding-bottom: 90px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_50670786 {\n    padding-top: 90px;\n    padding-bottom: 90px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-todaysec\" id=\"section_1589948310\">\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-412579460\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1400049413\" 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-2080695289\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-today-grid\">\n  <div class=\"bf-today-card\">\n    <div class=\"bf-today-date\">Monday &middot; 12 October 2026<\/div>\n    <h2 class=\"bf-today-feast\">Feria<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"bf-today-meta\">\n      <span class=\"bf-chip\">Feria<\/span>\n      <span class=\"bf-chip bf-chip-lit\"><i class=\"bf-swatch\"><\/i>Green<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"bf-today-quote\">Published before six this morning, as it has been every morning since formation.<\/p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/today\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-primary\">Read today&#8217;s offering <span class=\"bf-arrow\">\u2192<\/span><\/a>\n  <\/div>\n  <div>\n    <span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">The calendar<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"bf-h2\">The Church keeps time <em>differently.<\/em><\/h2>\n    <div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">Every day of the year carries a colour, a rank, and prayers proper to it \u2014 a calendar kept since before English existed.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">This site keeps it too. The light on this page is the colour of today in the liturgical year, drawn from our own missal. Return in Advent and it is violet. At a Requiem it goes to black and silver, and the light stops moving.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"bf-actions\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/liturgy\/calendar\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost bf-btn-sm\">The calendar<\/a>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/worship\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost bf-btn-sm\">All worship <span class=\"bf-arrow\">\u2192<\/span><\/a>\n    <\/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_1589948310 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1589948310 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-numbersec bf-light\" id=\"section_1962386549\">\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-318120955\">\n\t<div id=\"col-546729700\" 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-668074217\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow\">The record<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">Every morning <em>since formation.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\" style=\"margin:0 auto 36px\">Not a mission statement. A count, kept from the day this church was formed, and updated by the site rather than by anyone&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-numbers\">\n  <div class=\"bf-num\"><div class=\"bf-num-v\">168<\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-num-l\">Offerings<br>published<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-num\"><div class=\"bf-num-v\">360<\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-num-l\">Days since<br>formation<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-num\"><div class=\"bf-num-v\">26<\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-num-l\">Sunday<br>Masses<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-num\"><div class=\"bf-num-v\">12<\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-num-l\">Canonical<br>instruments<\/div><\/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_1962386549 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1962386549 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-railsec\" id=\"section_826727120\">\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-957111425\">\n\t<div id=\"col-27176536\" 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-461876525\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">Recently<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">The last six days, <em>and every day before.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\">Each one is a full liturgy with a homily \u2014 twelve to fifteen minutes read aloud, or four minutes if you only want the propers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-rail-h\">\n  <a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/done-in-true-judgment\/\"><div class=\"bf-card-img bf-card-img-16\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/done-in-true-judgment-open-missal-linen-2026-10-12-768x429.webp)\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Daily Offering<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">Monday \u00b7 12 October<\/div><h4>Daily Offering: October 12, 2026 | Done In True Judgment<\/h4><p>Welcome to Bloom&#039;s Daily Offering for Monday, October 12, 2026, a feria after the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, in green. No saint is kept today and there is no commemoration, so the Missal says the Sunday&#039;s Mass again, without the Gloria or&hellip;<\/p><\/div><\/a><a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/sunday-mass-subject-one-to-another\/\"><div class=\"bf-card-img bf-card-img-16\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/subject-one-to-another-round-table-no-head-768x429.webp)\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Sunday Mass<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">Sunday \u00b7 11 October<\/div><h4>Sunday Mass: October 11, 2026 | Subject One to Another<\/h4><p>Welcome to Bloom&#039;s Sunday Mass for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, October 11, 2026. The vestments are green. The Mass is the Sunday&#039;s own, second class, and the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose feast falls on this date, is kept as a&hellip;<\/p><\/div><\/a><a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/pattern-of-true-humility\/\"><div class=\"bf-card-img bf-card-img-16\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/pattern-of-true-humility-earth-palm-basin-towel-768x429.webp)\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Daily Offering<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">Saturday \u00b7 10 October<\/div><h4>Daily Offering: October 10, 2026 | The Pattern of True Humility<\/h4><p>Welcome to Bloom&#039;s Daily Offering for Saturday, October 10, 2026, the feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor, third class, in white. There is no commemoration. The Gloria is said, there is no Creed, and the Preface is the Common Preface. Today&#039;s Collect gives Christ&hellip;<\/p><\/div><\/a><a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/eternal-weight-of-glory\/\"><div class=\"bf-card-img bf-card-img-16\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/eternal-weight-of-glory-apothecary-balance-golden-light-768x429.webp)\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Daily Offering<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">Friday \u00b7 9 October<\/div><h4>Daily Offering: October 9, 2026 | An Eternal Weight of Glory<\/h4><p>Welcome to Bloom&#039;s Daily Offering for Friday, October 9, 2026, the feast of St. John Leonardi, Confessor, third class, in white, with a commemoration of Ss. Dionysius, Rusticus and Eleutherius, martyrs. The Gloria is said, there is no Creed, and the Preface is the&hellip;<\/p><\/div><\/a><a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/pearl-of-great-price\/\"><div class=\"bf-card-img bf-card-img-16\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/pearl-of-great-price-merchant-table-harbour-dawn-768x429.webp)\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Daily Offering<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">Thursday \u00b7 8 October<\/div><h4>Daily Offering: October 8, 2026 | The Pearl of Great Price<\/h4><p>Welcome to Bloom&#039;s Daily Offering for Thursday, October 8, 2026, the feast of St. Bridget of Sweden, widow, third class, in white, with a commemoration of Ss. Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus and Apuleius, martyrs. The Gloria is said, there is no Creed, and the Preface&hellip;<\/p><\/div><\/a><a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/the-most-holy-rosary\/\"><div class=\"bf-card-img bf-card-img-16\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/the-most-holy-rosary-kitchen-table-weekday-beads-768x429.webp)\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Daily Offering<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">Wednesday \u00b7 7 October<\/div><h4>Daily Offering: October 7, 2026 | The Most Holy Rosary<\/h4><p>Welcome to Bloom&#039;s Daily Offering for Wednesday, October 7, 2026, the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, second class, in white. The Gloria is said and the Preface is the Preface of the Blessed Virgin. There is a commemoration of Pope St. Mark,&hellip;<\/p><\/div><\/a><a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/obtain-forgiveness-for-our-offenses\/\"><div class=\"bf-card-img bf-card-img-16\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/obtain-forgiveness-for-our-offenses-chartreuse-valley-768x429.webp)\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Daily Offering<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">Tuesday \u00b7 6 October<\/div><h4>Daily Offering: October 6, 2026 | Obtain Forgiveness For Our Offenses<\/h4><p>Welcome to Bloom&#039;s Daily Offering for Tuesday, October 6, 2026, the feast of St. Bruno, Confessor, third class, in white. His Collect asks that we, who have grievously offended, may obtain forgiveness for our offences by his merits and prayers. That one petition is&hellip;<\/p><\/div><\/a><a class=\"bf-card bf-card-wide\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/rejoice-in-their-fellowship\/\"><div class=\"bf-card-img bf-card-img-16\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/rejoice-in-their-fellowship-daily-offering-october-5-2026-768x429.webp)\"><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Daily Offering<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">Monday \u00b7 5 October<\/div><h4>Daily Offering: October 5, 2026 | Rejoice In Their Fellowship<\/h4><p>Welcome to Bloom&#039;s Daily Offering for Monday, October 5, 2026. Today is a feria of the fourth class, the Monday after the XIX Sunday after Pentecost, with a commemoration of St. Placid and his Companions, Martyrs. Nothing is displaced. The Mass of the day&hellip;<\/p><\/div><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-rail-hint\">Drag or scroll sideways &nbsp;\u2192<\/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_826727120 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_826727120 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-columnsec\" id=\"section_900985557\">\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-573275367\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1008460325\" 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-1347718898\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-column-inner\">\n  <div class=\"bf-rail-v\"><div class=\"bf-rail-line\"><\/div><div class=\"bf-rail-orb\"><\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-column-body\">\n    <h2 class=\"bf-h2\">The text is ancient.<span class=\"bf-turn\">The welcome is ours.<\/span><\/h2>\n    <div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n    <p class=\"bf-p bf-p-lead\">The harm was never in the Latin.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">It was in the sermon around it. The interview before it. The note written in the file afterward. The raised eyebrow at a name. Not one word of the rite had to change for a person to be told they were a problem to be solved.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">So the Church of Bloom changes nothing in the rite. The propers, the collects, the ordinary of the Mass \u2014 all of it stands exactly as it stands in the 1962 <em>Missale Romanum<\/em>, verified against a physical missal rather than a website. <strong>What we replace is the framing.<\/strong><\/p>\n    <div class=\"bf-pull\">Anyone can edit a liturgy to make it kind. It takes more to leave it untouched and prove it was never the thing that hurt you.<\/div>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">This is an Independent Catholic church. It is <strong>not in communion with Rome<\/strong> and claims no Roman faculties, jurisdiction, or recognition of its orders. That appears on the first page rather than the last, because ambiguity is the only thing here that would deserve your suspicion.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">Holy orders are open to every baptized person found fit, regardless of sex, gender identity, or gender history. <strong>Rome holds otherwise.<\/strong> Their position is published beside ours so you can read both and decide what you think.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"bf-actions\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/canon\/where-we-stand\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost\">Read Where We Stand <span class=\"bf-arrow\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/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_900985557 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_900985557 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-doorssec bf-light\" id=\"section_59762392\">\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-952777471\">\n\t<div id=\"col-560218728\" 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-177698747\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">Where to start<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">Five doors. <em>No locks.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\">No membership gauntlet, no doctrine test, no interview. Enter in this order or any other.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-doors\">\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/new\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">I<\/span>\n    <h3>New Here?<\/h3><p>What actually happens, what is expected of you, and what a first visit is like. Written for someone who is not sure they want to be seen yet.<\/p>\n    <span class=\"bf-door-go\">Start here \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/worship\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">II<\/span>\n    <h3>Worship<\/h3><p>The Daily Offering, published every morning, and Sunday Mass in the rite of 1962. Read at any hour, from anywhere, with nobody counting.<\/p>\n    <span class=\"bf-door-go\">Enter \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/support\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">III<\/span>\n    <h3>Support<\/h3><p>Pastoral care, grief, groups, and a page for people whose church shut the door. Nothing here requires belief and nothing costs money.<\/p>\n    <span class=\"bf-door-go\">Enter \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">IV<\/span>\n    <h3>Ask<\/h3><p>Plain words are fine. Common questions are answered in writing already; anything else reaches the Ordinary directly.<\/p>\n    <span class=\"bf-door-go\">Ask \u2192<\/span><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-door\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/canon\/\"><span class=\"bf-door-n\">V<\/span>\n    <h3>The Church of Bloom<\/h3><p>The canonical tier \u2014 what is believed, where the Church stands, who its clergy are, and how the Chancery is governed. Sources and instruments, in full.<\/p>\n    <span class=\"bf-door-go\">Read the record \u2192<\/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_59762392 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_59762392 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-splitsec\" id=\"section_438409135\">\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-14921274\">\n\t<div id=\"col-569829497\" 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-1880055020\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-split bf-split-wide\">\n  <div class=\"bf-split-media bf-img-2\">\n    <!-- BLOOM_IMAGE_NEEDED: a single lit candle on a windowsill at night, a phone face-down beside it, read as private rather than ceremonial -->\n    <span class=\"bf-ph\">Image<br>A candle, a window<br>Three in the morning<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n  <div><span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">If you are not ready<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"bf-h2\">You can be here <em>without being seen.<\/em><\/h2><div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">Most people arrive at a trans affirming Catholic church the way you probably did \u2014 alone, at an hour they would not admit to, checking whether it is a trap. That is a reasonable thing to check.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">So nothing here requires an account, a camera, a name, or a word out loud. There is no roll call and no attendance. You can read the Daily Offering every morning for a year and remain entirely unknown to us, and that is a complete way to belong to this church.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">When you want more than that, the door is where it has always been.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"bf-actions\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/new\/what-to-expect\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost\">What to expect <span class=\"bf-arrow\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/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_438409135 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_438409135 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-railsec\" id=\"section_269178501\">\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-8353383\">\n\t<div id=\"col-304691563\" 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-877039964\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">The witnesses we keep<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">Days observed <em>alongside the calendar.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\">Each is a real figure in the historical record. Where the reading is ours rather than the tradition&#8217;s, we say so on the page and show the evidence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-rail-h\">\n  <a class=\"bf-card\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/canon\/our-patron\/\">\n    <div class=\"bf-card-img bf-img-3 bf-card-img-34\"><!-- BLOOM_IMAGE_NEEDED: an icon-style portrait of St. Mary Magdalene holding a vessel, painted rather than photographic --><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Patron<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">22 July<\/div><h4>St. Mary Magdalene<\/h4><p>First to the tomb, first sent. Diminished for centuries by the men she was sent to.<\/p><\/div><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-card\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/canon\/what-we-believe\/\">\n    <div class=\"bf-card-img bf-img-4 bf-card-img-34\"><!-- BLOOM_IMAGE_NEEDED: a monastic cell doorway, austere stone, a single robe on a hook --><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Witness<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">12 February<\/div><h4>St. Marinos the Monk<\/h4><p>Lived as a man in a monastery, was accused, exiled, vindicated, and venerated as a saint.<\/p><\/div><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-card\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/canon\/what-we-believe\/\">\n    <div class=\"bf-card-img bf-img-5 bf-card-img-34\"><!-- BLOOM_IMAGE_NEEDED: two hands clasped through a prison grate, warm low light --><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Martyrs<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">7 March<\/div><h4>Ss. Perpetua &amp; Felicity<\/h4><p>Perpetua recorded her own vision of becoming male on the eve of her martyrdom.<\/p><\/div><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-card\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/canon\/what-we-believe\/\">\n    <div class=\"bf-card-img bf-img-6 bf-card-img-34\"><!-- BLOOM_IMAGE_NEEDED: a suit of plain armour on a stand, no figure inside it --><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Witness<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">30 May<\/div><h4>St. Joan of Arc<\/h4><p>Condemned in part for refusing to stop wearing men&#8217;s clothing. Burned, and later canonised.<\/p><\/div><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-card\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/canon\/what-we-believe\/\">\n    <div class=\"bf-card-img bf-img-7 bf-card-img-34\"><!-- BLOOM_IMAGE_NEEDED: a medieval carved wooden crucifix figure in a long robe, weathered --><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Witness<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">20 July<\/div><h4>St. Wilgefortis<\/h4><p>Venerated across medieval Europe as a bearded woman who prayed not to be married off.<\/p><\/div><\/a>\n  <a class=\"bf-card\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/support\/grief\/\">\n    <div class=\"bf-card-img bf-img-8 bf-card-img-34\"><!-- BLOOM_IMAGE_NEEDED: a row of votive candles burning in a dark side chapel, names implied but unreadable --><span class=\"bf-card-tag\">Commemoration<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"bf-card-b\"><div class=\"bf-card-date\">20 November<\/div><h4>Day of Remembrance<\/h4><p>Kept as a commemoration with proper texts. The names are read aloud, in full, one at a time.<\/p><\/div><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-rail-hint\">Drag or scroll sideways &nbsp;\u2192<\/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_269178501 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_269178501 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-declsec bf-light\" id=\"section_816772669\">\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-1138359996\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1743101079\" 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-3625675549\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">The standing position<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">What will <em>never<\/em> happen here.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\">Naming the gates is how you prove they are gone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-decl\">\n<p class=\"bf-decl-art\">On belief<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-decl-t\">There is no doctrine test \u2014 not at communion, not at a blessing, not at a burial. <em>You will never be asked what you believe in order to receive.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-decl\">\n<p class=\"bf-decl-art\">On conversion practice<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-decl-t\">None is offered, in any direction, ever. <em>That includes the subtle kind dressed up as concern.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-decl\">\n<p class=\"bf-decl-art\">On privacy<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-decl-t\">There is no prayer list, no outing, and no contact with families or former churches. <em>For some of our people a prayer list is not a comfort but a disclosure.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bf-decl\">\n<p class=\"bf-decl-art\">On money<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-decl-t\">Nothing this church offers has a fee, and giving never rides along with a prayer. <em>Giving lives on its own page and buys nothing.<\/em><\/p><\/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_816772669 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_816772669 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-quote\" id=\"section_1893212567\">\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-1606192886\">\n\t<div id=\"col-1256422748\" 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-2802863349\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<p class=\"bf-quote-t\">&#8220;They told me I had walked away from my baptism. I hadn&#8217;t. They had locked a door and told me I was the one who left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bf-quote-c\">Received in correspondence \u00b7 published with consent<\/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_1893212567 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_1893212567 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-formsec bf-light\" id=\"section_313937585\">\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-1152069552\">\n\t<div id=\"col-207408718\" 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-2201582017\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<div class=\"bf-split\">\n  <div><span class=\"bf-eyebrow bf-eyebrow-left\">The offering, by email<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"bf-h2\">Before six, <em>every morning.<\/em><\/h2><div class=\"bf-rule\"><\/div>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">One entry a day \u2014 the feast, the propers, and a short homily. No fundraising rides along with the prayer, because a trans affirming Catholic church that sells to you at prayer is not one.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"bf-p\">Unsubscribing is one click and carries no guilt and no follow-up.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"bf-form\"><h3>Receive the Daily Offering<\/h3>\n    <p>Your address is used for this and nothing else.<\/p>\n    <div class='fluentform ff-default fluentform_wrapper_9 ffs_default_wrap'><form data-form_id=\"9\" id=\"fluentform_9\" class=\"frm-fluent-form fluent_form_9 ff-el-form-top ff_form_instance_9_1 ff-form-loading ffs_default\" data-form_instance=\"ff_form_instance_9_1\" method=\"POST\" ><fieldset  style=\"border: none!important;margin: 0!important;padding: 0!important;background-color: transparent!important;box-shadow: none!important;outline: none!important; min-inline-size: 100%;\">\n                    <legend class=\"ff_screen_reader_title\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0!important;padding: 0!important;height: 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and not used to work out who you are. The subject line is always the feast of the day \u2014 never anything that would out you on a lock screen.<\/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_313937585 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_313937585 {\n    padding-top: 130px;\n    padding-bottom: 130px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\t<section class=\"section bf-ctasec\" id=\"section_592705853\">\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-1338914178\">\n\t<div id=\"col-406564531\" 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-184683932\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<span class=\"bf-eyebrow\">However you arrived<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"bf-h2\">You do not have to<br><em>be ready.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p class=\"bf-lede\" style=\"margin:0 auto 36px\">Most people who write are not ready, and it has never once been the reason a conversation went badly. If tonight is worse than that, the crisis page is one click away and asks nothing of you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bf-actions\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/ask\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-primary\">Write to a pastor <span class=\"bf-arrow\">\u2192<\/span><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/support\/crisis\/\" class=\"bf-btn bf-btn-ghost\">If you are in crisis<\/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_592705853 {\n  padding-top: 80px;\n  padding-bottom: 80px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #section_592705853 {\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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2811","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2811","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=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90345,"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2811\/revisions\/90345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloomministries.org\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}