Opening Address Stand her ground—that is what today’s prayer asks for the Church, in those words, and it is a stranger request than it first sounds. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning—however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out elsewhere. Bloom is not a room you […]
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Opening Address I see the heavens opened. That is a sentence said by a man with stones already in the air around him, and it is the sentence this whole Mass decides to keep. Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, December 26, 2025. Today is the feast of St. Stephen, Protomartyr, second class, and […]