Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, October 11, 2026. The vestments are green. The Mass is the Sunday’s own, second class, and the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose feast falls on this date, is kept as a commemoration in the prayers. Today’s Lesson ends on a […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, October 6, 2026, the feast of St. Bruno, Confessor, third class, in white. His Collect asks that we, who have grievously offended, may obtain forgiveness for our offences by his merits and prayers. That one petition is the whole of what is new on the altar […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church gives us the parable of the marriage feast: a king whose invitation is refused, a hall filled from the highways, and one guest found without a wedding garment. That garment has been used as a weapon for a very […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, October 2, 2026. Today is the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels, a feast of the third class, and the vestments are white. There is no commemoration, and nothing is displaced. The whole Mass turns on one sentence of Exodus, in which God sends an angel […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Wednesday, September 30, 2026. Today is the feast of St. Jerome, Confessor and Doctor of the Church, third class, and the vestments are white. There is no commemoration. The Church gives him the Mass she gives every Doctor, which this ministry has now read eight times, and […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Today is the Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel, a feast of the first class, and the vestments are white. The Gospel opens with the disciples asking Christ to settle a ranking question, and it closes at the tenth verse somewhere they were […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, September 28, 2026, the feast of St. Wenceslaus, Duke and Martyr, a feast of the third class. His Gospel opens with a sword laid through the middle of a family and closes on a cup of cold water handed to one small person. The Church reads […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church hands us a Gospel in which a man is carried to Jesus on a bed, and Jesus, seeing their faith, speaks to him. Not his faith. Theirs. Those two words are going to carry this whole morning. This is […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, September 26, 2026. This is the Ember Saturday of September, a day of the second class, and the longest Mass you will meet in an ordinary week. Five Lessons, four Graduals, six Collects, and only then the Epistle and the Gospel. We read the whole of […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, September 25, 2026. Today is Ember Friday of September, second class, a fast day with its own complete Mass, and at the centre of its Lesson God says a sentence this ministry has never printed before: I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely. […]