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Daily Offering: December 18, 2025 | Surpasseth All Understanding

Surpasseth all understanding — four upturned chairs stacked against the wall of an empty parish hall and one chair left standing by a plain table in flat winter daylight

Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, and the Lesson ends this morning on a sentence that asks nothing of you at all—a peace which surpasseth all understanding. This is the Feria V after the Third Sunday of Advent, second class, and the vestments are violet. There is no saint on the calendar, nothing displaced, […]

Daily Offering: December 15, 2025 | What Sayest Thou of Thyself

What sayest thou of thyself — a printed sheet on a plain table in a bare waiting room, three empty tick boxes ruled down one side and a wide blank space below them, in flat winter daylight

Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, and the Gospel this morning is a short interview in which the interesting question comes last—what sayest thou of thyself. This is the Feria II after the Third Sunday of Advent, third class, and the vestments are violet again. Yesterday they were rose for one morning; today the […]

Daily Offering: December 12, 2025 | Abound in Hope

Abound in hope — old brass balance scales on a plain wooden counter, both pans empty and hanging level in flat morning daylight

Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, and the Lesson ends this morning the way it ended on Sunday and twice since: with a prayer that you may abound in hope. Not hold on to some. Not keep enough to be going on with. Abound. This is the Feria VI after the Second Sunday of […]

Daily Offering: December 9, 2025 | Written for Our Learning

Written for our learning — a footpath worn bare across a winter field under flat overcast light, a low hedge closing the far end

Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, and today the Church gives you a text you were given two days ago, on the grounds that it was written for our learning and learning is not a thing that happens once. This is the Feria III after the Second Sunday of Advent, third class, and the […]