Tag Archives: commemoration

Daily Offering: September 24, 2026 | So Great a Work

An open gateway in a long stone wall with a road running out through it in midday light — going and getting somebody out, which today's prayer calls so great a work

Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, September 24, 2026. Today is a feria of the seventeenth week after Pentecost, fourth class, and for the most part it is Sunday’s Mass said over again. One thing on it is new. The Church commemorates Our Lady of Ransom this morning, and that commemoration brings […]

Daily Offering: September 17, 2026 | The Fire of Thy Love

A fire just catching in a plain stone hearth in a cold bare room at first light — a prayer that the fire of Thy love be lit in a world gone cold, by a hand that is not ours

Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, September 17, 2026. Today is a feria of the sixteenth week after Pentecost, fourth class, and the Mass is Sunday’s Mass said again without a word altered. What today adds is a commemoration, and the commemoration brings three prayers this ministry has never printed. We are going to […]

Daily Offering: September 11, 2026 | The Remedy of Eternal Salvation

A plain wooden counter with a tray of folded paper sachets, a jug and two glasses set out in flat morning light, medicine put ready for whoever comes, which is the shape of the remedy of eternal salvation

Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, September 11, 2026. Today is the Feria VI after the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. Ss. Protus and Hyacinth, Martyrs, are commemorated after the Collect, and their own Secret asks God for the remedy of eternal salvation. That is the […]

Daily Offering: September 9, 2026 | Gladden Us by His Intercession

An open upright piano and a cleared floor in a bright empty village hall with the chairs pushed back to the walls, a room set up for a gladness somebody else arranged, which is what it means to ask that he gladden us by his intercession

Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Wednesday, September 9, 2026. Today is the Feria IV after the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. St. Gorgonius, Martyr, is commemorated after the Collect, and his own Collect asks that he gladden us by his intercession. That is the phrase we […]

Daily Offering: December 5, 2025 | Any Merits of Ours

The view from a bare stone cell at dawn onto a dry rocky ravine, a reed mat and clay cup on the floor

Opening Address The Church gives St. Sabbas three sentences this morning and gives him nothing else whatsoever, and the first of the three carries the phrase this offering is built on: what we may not have through any merits of ours. No Introit of his own. No Lesson, no chant, no Gospel. A man born […]