Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, October 11, 2026. The vestments are green. The Mass is the Sunday’s own, second class, and the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose feast falls on this date, is kept as a commemoration in the prayers. Today’s Lesson ends on a […]
Category Archives: Sunday Mass
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church gives us the parable of the marriage feast: a king whose invitation is refused, a hall filled from the highways, and one guest found without a wedding garment. That garment has been used as a weapon for a very […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church hands us a Gospel in which a man is carried to Jesus on a bed, and Jesus, seeing their faith, speaks to him. Not his faith. Theirs. Those two words are going to carry this whole morning. This is […]
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Sep
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church hands us a letter that tells a congregation exactly what the bond of peace is made of, and a Gospel in which the experts are asked one question and cannot answer it. This is offered in the Independent Catholic […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church puts a dinner party and a letter written out of somebody’s troubles side by side, and asks that we be rooted and founded in charity, which is the only thing either reading wants for anybody. This is offered in […]
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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 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 […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Gospel gives us ten people healed and one person told something the other nine never heard, and the whole morning turns on that one sentence: thy faith hath made thee whole. This is offered in the Independent Catholic tradition, from the […]
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Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and today it opens on four words that indict a great deal of religion: the letter killeth. We offer this Mass in the Independent Catholic tradition—not affiliated with or recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, but standing in the same Roman Rite, held by a pastor for whom this tradition […]
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Aug
Opening Address Be thou opened — that’s the last word of a whole week’s worth of readings about doors, chains, and lamps kept lit, and it lands today as the deepest version of them all. Bloom’s Sunday Mass, offered today in the Independent Catholic tradition — not affiliated with or recognized by the Roman Catholic […]