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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Sep
Sep
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, September 7, 2026. Today is the Feria II after the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green again. There is no feast, no commemoration and nothing displaced, and every text appointed for today is the text we prayed yesterday. The one prayer […]
05
Sep
Sep
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, September 5, 2026. Today is the feast of St. Lawrence Justinian, Bishop and Confessor, third class, and the vestments are white. There is no commemoration and nothing displaced. Every reading appointed for today has been read here before, and the whole of what is new is […]
04
Sep
Sep
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, September 4, 2026. Today is a feria of the fourteenth week after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. There is no feast on the calendar, no saint commemorated in the prayers, and not one word in today’s Mass that we have not already prayed […]
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Dec
Dec
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, December 23, 2025. Today is a feria of the fourth week of Advent, second class, and the vestments are violet. There is no feast, no saint and no commemoration, and for the third morning running the Church hands us the same Mass without changing a syllable […]
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Dec
Dec
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, December 22, 2025. Today is a feria of the fourth week of Advent, second class, and the vestments are violet. There is no feast, no saint, no commemoration, and not one word in today’s Mass that was not said yesterday. So the whole morning belongs to […]