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 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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Opening Address We might have been burdensome. Five words out of the middle of this morning’s Lesson, written by a man setting out everything he could have taken and did not, and I have not been able to put them down. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however this Thursday finds you. Certain or unravelling, […]
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Opening Address Imitate what we commemorate. Four words out of the middle of a prayer almost nobody hears, said quietly over bread and wine before anything happens to them, and I have not been able to put them down since I read them. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however this Wednesday finds you. Certain […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 1, 2026. Today is a feria of the fourteenth week after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. Two saints are commemorated in the prayers, and one of those prayers asks God to give us joy from the brotherly crown of His martyrs. That […]
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Opening Address With free minds. That is the phrase the Church hands us this morning, three words near the end of a prayer most people will never hear, and I want to spend the whole morning on it. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however today finds you. Rested or wrecked, certain of God or […]
Daily Offering
Daily Offering: August 29, 2026 | They Shall Fight Against Thee, and Shall Not Prevail
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Opening Address Good morning. They shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail. That is what God says to Jeremias at the end of today’s Lesson, and the Church hands us that sentence on the morning it remembers a man whose head was carried out of a prison on a serving dish. Hold both of […]
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Opening Address Today the Church prays for people on whom God has bestowed great hope in Your forgiveness. That is the Collect for August 28, the feast of St. Augustine, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church, and it is a strange prayer to find on the calendar of the man who wrote more about […]
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Opening Address Today the Church keeps St. Joseph Calasanctius, a priest who spent fifty years running schools for children whose families could not pay, and the Gospel appointed for his Mass answers a question about rank by telling the men who asked it to become as little children. The disciples come to Jesus and ask […]
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Opening Address Today is a Wednesday feria, and the Church gives it no readings of its own. It repeats Sunday’s, word for word. One thing on the page is new, and it is a single prayer for a pope almost nobody remembers, which asks the Eternal Shepherd to look forgivingly on His flock and calls […]