A sacrament is God’s own action, handled by the Church with care and written down in ink. Faith in Bloom keeps all nine in the Roman Rite of 1962, unaltered. Nothing here carries a fee, and nothing here is conditioned on what you can recite.
On the conditions for a sacrament
No sacrament of this church is conditioned on detransition, on celibacy, on the status of your partnership, or on your silence. There is no test to pass and no fee to pay; there is only the sacrament and the register it is written into.
In this tradition a sacrament is not a reward for arriving at the right beliefs. It is an act of God, worked through matter and words the Church did not invent and cannot revise — water, oil, bread, hands, consent. The minister is a witness and a servant of that act, not its owner.
That is why affirming Catholic sacraments are not a softer version of anything. They are the same rites, kept in the same books, offered to people other parishes turned away. The Church of Bloom is an Independent Catholic body and is not in communion with Rome; it claims no Roman faculties, jurisdiction, or recognition of its orders, and it says so plainly wherever a reader might assume otherwise.
The name you use is the name entered in the register. A valid baptism is never repeated.
How to ask → IIFor adults never confirmed, and for anyone told later that theirs did not count. It stands.
How to ask → IIIYour existence is not matter for confession. The seal is absolute and holds forever.
How to ask → IVNobody checks credentials at the rail. First Communion is prepared for adults and children alike.
How to ask → VSame-sex marriage celebrated without qualification. Pre-Cana is six sessions and is not waived.
How to ask → VIFor chronic illness and disability as much as for the dying. Not last rites only.
How to ask → VIIThe dead are named correctly. Deadnaming is stopped out loud, in the moment.
How to ask → VIIIRites this church authors because no book contains them, alongside the ordinary ones.
How to ask → IXOpen to every baptized person found fit. The gates are real and none of them is waived.
How to ask →A sentence is enough. Write to the Chancery or use the form below and name the sacrament you want.
Every petition is read personally by the Office of the Ordinary. Petitions are answered within two days.
Answered within two daysOne conversation, at your pace, about what you are asking for and what has happened to you in church before.
Proportionate to the sacrament. Baptism and confirmation are short; marriage is eight weeks minimum and is not shortened.
The rite is celebrated from the 1952 Rituale Romanum, and the entry is made in a bound register in ink.
Required — not waivable“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:28
Name the sacrament, or describe the situation and let the Chancery name it for you.
Write one sentence to the Chancery. That is the whole of the first step, and it has never once been the wrong one.
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