Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Today is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, second class, and the vestments are white. St. Adrian, Martyr, is commemorated after the Collect. The prayer at the middle of this Mass calls one child-bearing the beginning of our salvation, and that is […]
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Dec
Dec
Opening Address Advent has been running one formulary for days at a time, and this morning it stops and does something it does not do in any ordinary week. Two Lessons are read instead of one, each with its own Collect and its own Gradual, and the second of them ends with a sentence the […]
16
Dec
Dec
Opening Address Advent goes violet for most of a month, and this morning a martyr’s red is laid across it for one day. The Church keeps St. Eusebius of Vercelli, a bishop who spent years of his life in exile a long way from the city he was given, and the Lesson it hands him […]
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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Saturday, the twenty-ninth of November, and it is the last day of the Church’s year. Tomorrow is the First Sunday of Advent and the whole calendar begins again. The final entry before it is a Saturday with no feast of its own, handed to Our Lady, with […]
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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Tuesday, the twenty-fifth of November, and the Church keeps St. Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr, third class, in red. The Lesson she is given is a list of everything that nearly destroyed a man, and the clause sitting in the middle of that list is five […]
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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Saturday, the twenty-second of November, and the Church keeps St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr, third class. Before a single reading, before the saint is so much as described, the entrance chant hands us four words about somebody’s standing: I was not ashamed. The day the temporal calendar […]
21
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Friday, the twenty-first of November, and the Church keeps the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, third class, in white. The day the temporal calendar names is the Friday after the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, and that feria is not commemorated at all. There is no other […]
08
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Saturday, the eighth of November, and the calendar has nothing of its own to put here. When a Saturday in this stretch of the year comes up empty, the Church hands it to Our Lady, so the vestments are white and the Mass is the fifth Mass […]
07
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Friday, the seventh of November, the Feria VI after the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost. The vestments are green. There is no saint on the calendar today and no commemoration attached to the Mass, which means the Church hands us the Sunday’s own texts one more time, unchanged, […]