Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, September 18, 2026, the feast of St. Joseph of Cupertino, Confessor, a feast of the third class. The Lesson this morning is the chapter everybody knows, and its first sentence takes a man who can speak every language there is, human and otherwise, and says that […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, September 17, 2026. Today is a feria of the sixteenth week after Pentecost, fourth class, and the Mass is Sunday’s Mass said again without a word altered. What today adds is a commemoration, and the commemoration brings three prayers this ministry has never printed. We are going to […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Wednesday, September 16, 2026. Today the Church keeps Ss. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs, third class, with a commemoration of Ss. Euphemia, Lucy and Geminianus. Two men, one Mass, one Collect between them. The Church names Cornelius and Cyprian in a single breath and does not […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 15, 2026, the feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a feast of the second class, with a commemoration of St. Nicomedes, Martyr. The Gradual this morning calls Our Lady sorrowful and tearful, and then it stops. Sorrowful and tearful is the […]
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A feast of an execution device, and a Gospel that puts the court on trial at the very moment it kills Him. The judgment of the world, September 14, 2026.
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, September 12, 2026. Today is the Most Holy Name of Mary, third class, and the vestments are white. There is no commemoration. The Collect asks that those who delight in her name be delivered from all evils on earth, and that phrase is where we are […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, September 11, 2026. Today is the Feria VI after the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. Ss. Protus and Hyacinth, Martyrs, are commemorated after the Collect, and their own Secret asks God for the remedy of eternal salvation. That is the […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, September 10, 2026. Today the Church keeps St. Nicholas of Tolentino, Confessor, third class, white vestments, with no commemoration. His Mass carries one sentence that has never stood here before, and the middle of it says that we have no confidence in our own righteousness. That […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Wednesday, September 9, 2026. Today is the Feria IV after the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. St. Gorgonius, Martyr, is commemorated after the Collect, and his own Collect asks that he gladden us by his intercession. That is the phrase we […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Today is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, second class, and the vestments are white. St. Adrian, Martyr, is commemorated after the Collect. The prayer at the middle of this Mass calls one child-bearing the beginning of our salvation, and that is […]