Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church hands us a Gospel in which a man is carried to Jesus on a bed, and Jesus, seeing their faith, speaks to him. Not his faith. Theirs. Those two words are going to carry this whole morning. This is […]
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Sep
Sep
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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Sep
Sep
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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Sep
Sep
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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Dec
Dec
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas. Today’s Epistle draws a small legal picture and then overturns it in a single line, and the line it lands on is the one we are staying with: an heir also through God. This is offered in the Independent Catholic […]
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Oct
Oct
Opening Address Your son lives — four words spoken from a distance, about a body the speaker never touches, and it’s worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out […]