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 […]
Tag Archives: ecclesiasticus
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address St. Hyacinth spent roughly thirty-seven years walking, and that fact is the door into everything today’s Mass is saying. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning—however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out elsewhere. Bloom is not a room you have to earn your way […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it—that is Christ’s own correction of a compliment, and it’s the sentence to carry into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut […]
08
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Open to him immediately — that’s the specific instruction Christ gives about what to do the moment the knock actually comes, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut […]
07
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Lamps burning in your hands — that’s the specific image Christ gives for the kind of waiting He actually wants from us, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it — that’s Christ’s own answer when a woman in the crowd praises His mother in the most physical terms available to her, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however […]
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Jul
Jul
Opening Address A pearl of great price — that’s what today’s Gospel says is worth selling everything else to keep, and it’s exactly what a ten-year-old girl apparently understood better than most adults ever do. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed […]
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Jul
Jul
Opening Address Keep your lamp burning — that’s the charge underneath everything in today’s readings, and it’s worth holding onto before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut out elsewhere. Bloom is not a room […]
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Dec
Dec
Opening Address Follow thou me. Three words, and they are the whole of what one man is given on a morning when he asks a question about somebody else. Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, December 27, 2025. Today is the feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, second class, and the vestments are […]
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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 […]
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