Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, October 12, 2026, a feria after the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, in green. No saint is kept today and there is no commemoration, so the Missal says the Sunday’s Mass again, without the Gloria or the Creed, with the Common Preface. This morning listens […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, October 3, 2026. Today the Church keeps the feast of St. Theresa of the Infant Jesus, a Virgin, in the third class, and the vestments are white. Nothing is commemorated and nothing is displaced, so the Saturday gives way to her completely and every prayer in […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, October 1, 2026. Today is a feria, the fifth day after the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. There is a commemoration of St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor, and nothing is displaced. The Mass is Sunday’s Mass again, and the prayer […]
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Opening Address Feed my sheep. That is the whole of the order given in this morning’s Mass, and it is given three times before the Lesson has even begun. Today is white, in the middle of a violet fortnight, for a bishop of Rome who died on this day in 384. The Mass itself is […]
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Oppening Address Look forgivingly on thy flock. That is the one sentence this Wednesday adds to a week that has otherwise said everything it has to say already, and it is worth the whole morning. Advent hands us the Second Sunday’s Mass for the third time in four days. The readings are the ones we […]