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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Aug
Aug
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 […]
10
Dec
Dec
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 […]
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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Friday, the twenty-first of November, and the Church keeps the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, third class, in white. The day the temporal calendar names is the Friday after the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, and that feria is not commemorated at all. There is no other […]