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 […]
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Opening Address The mountain is the part everybody remembers. Three verses of Mark, a mountain thrown into the sea, and a promise about prayer so large that most of us have quietly filed it under things the Church says on a good day. What hardly anybody stops on is the sentence that arrives before any […]
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Opening Address Most of the Church’s prayers open by naming something true about God and then ask for something on the strength of it. Today’s opens by naming something true about us. O God, Who see that we cannot survive by any power of our own. That is the ground of the whole prayer, and […]
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Opening Address Everyone remembers the accounting. The master comes home, the servants line up, the sums are read out, and one man is thrown into the dark. What almost nobody remembers is the sentence the two commended men actually hear, which is not a score and not a ranking but this: faithful over a few […]