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 […]
Category Archives: Liturgy & Prayer
The prayer stream of Today, in Bloom.
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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 […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, September 7, 2026. Today is the Feria II after the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green again. There is no feast, no commemoration and nothing displaced, and every text appointed for today is the text we prayed yesterday. The one prayer […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Epistle ends on five words that have been used as a wall for nineteen centuries, and the whole morning turns on reading them in the order Paul wrote them: the household of the faith. This is offered in the Independent Catholic […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, September 5, 2026. Today is the feast of St. Lawrence Justinian, Bishop and Confessor, third class, and the vestments are white. There is no commemoration and nothing displaced. Every reading appointed for today has been read here before, and the whole of what is new is […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, September 4, 2026. Today is a feria of the fourteenth week after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. There is no feast on the calendar, no saint commemorated in the prayers, and not one word in today’s Mass that we have not already prayed […]
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Opening Address We might have been burdensome. Five words out of the middle of this morning’s Lesson, written by a man setting out everything he could have taken and did not, and I have not been able to put them down. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however this Thursday finds you. Certain or unravelling, […]