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 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. […]
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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 […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Wednesday, September 23, 2026, Ember Wednesday of September, second class, with a commemoration of St. Linus, Pope and Martyr. St. Thecla is displaced entirely today, and the joy of the Lord is our strength is the line this whole morning turns on. This is a fast day, […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 22, 2026, the feast of St. Thomas of Villanova, Bishop and Confessor, third class, with a commemoration of Ss. Maurice and his Companions, Martyrs. Nothing is displaced, and the day’s one new prayer asks God to pour out the riches of Thy mercy on everybody […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, September 21, 2026, the feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, a feast of the second class. The Gospel this morning is the one about him, and it does not open with a changed life. It opens with a man sitting in the custom house, at […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, September 19, 2026, the feast of Ss. Januarius and his Companions, Martyrs, a feast of the third class. The Lesson this morning remembers a congregation that was made a gazingstock, and then, in the same breath, remembers the people who decided to stand where they could […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, September 18, 2026, the feast of St. Joseph of Cupertino, Confessor, a feast of the third class. The Lesson this morning is the chapter everybody knows, and its first sentence takes a man who can speak every language there is, human and otherwise, and says that […]