Opening Address Imitate what we commemorate. Four words out of the middle of a prayer almost nobody hears, said quietly over bread and wine before anything happens to them, and I have not been able to put them down since I read them. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however this Wednesday finds you. Certain […]
Category Archives: Liturgy & Prayer
The prayer stream of Today, in Bloom.
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Sep
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 1, 2026. Today is a feria of the fourteenth week after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. Two saints are commemorated in the prayers, and one of those prayers asks God to give us joy from the brotherly crown of His martyrs. That […]
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Aug
Opening Address With free minds. That is the phrase the Church hands us this morning, three words near the end of a prayer most people will never hear, and I want to spend the whole morning on it. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however today finds you. Rested or wrecked, certain of God or […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Epistle ends with five words that almost nobody quotes, and the whole morning turns on them: against such there is no law. This is offered in the Independent Catholic tradition, from the 1962 Roman Rite, and Bloom is not affiliated with […]
Daily Offering
Daily Offering: August 29, 2026 | They Shall Fight Against Thee, and Shall Not Prevail
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Aug
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Opening Address Good morning. They shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail. That is what God says to Jeremias at the end of today’s Lesson, and the Church hands us that sentence on the morning it remembers a man whose head was carried out of a prison on a serving dish. Hold both of […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Today the Church prays for people on whom God has bestowed great hope in Your forgiveness. That is the Collect for August 28, the feast of St. Augustine, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church, and it is a strange prayer to find on the calendar of the man who wrote more about […]
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Aug
Opening Address Today the Church keeps St. Joseph Calasanctius, a priest who spent fifty years running schools for children whose families could not pay, and the Gospel appointed for his Mass answers a question about rank by telling the men who asked it to become as little children. The disciples come to Jesus and ask […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Today is a Wednesday feria, and the Church gives it no readings of its own. It repeats Sunday’s, word for word. One thing on the page is new, and it is a single prayer for a pope almost nobody remembers, which asks the Eternal Shepherd to look forgivingly on His flock and calls […]
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Aug
Opening Address Today the Church keeps St. Louis IX, King of France, and the Gospel appointed for his Mass is the one about the ten servants and the ten gold pieces. I want to say at the start what this parable is not, because it has been preached badly for a very long time. It […]
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Aug
Opening Address And coming down with them, he stood in a plain place. Luke gives us one clause, eight words long, and the whole feast turns on it. He came down. He stood in a plain place. Beloved, grace and peace to you this Monday morning, whatever you are carrying into the week. Bloom asks […]