Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Today is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, second class, and the vestments are white. St. Adrian, Martyr, is commemorated after the Collect. The prayer at the middle of this Mass calls one child-bearing the beginning of our salvation, and that is […]
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Dec
Dec
Oppening Address The glory of Jerusalem is a title, and titles have a history. Today the Church says it to a girl in Nazareth who has not yet answered the angel, and it is worth knowing where the Church got the sentence. It did not compose it for her. It found it already in use, […]
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Nov
Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Saturday, the twenty-ninth of November, and it is the last day of the Church’s year. Tomorrow is the First Sunday of Advent and the whole calendar begins again. The final entry before it is a Saturday with no feast of its own, handed to Our Lady, with […]
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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 […]
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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Saturday, the eighth of November, and the calendar has nothing of its own to put here. When a Saturday in this stretch of the year comes up empty, the Church hands it to Our Lady, so the vestments are white and the Mass is the fifth Mass […]
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Oct
Opening Address Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it — that’s Christ’s own answer today to a woman shouting the loudest compliment she can think of, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive […]