Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, and today the Church gives you a text you were given two days ago, on the grounds that it was written for our learning and learning is not a thing that happens once. This is the Feria III after the Second Sunday of Advent, third class, and the […]
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Opening Address Serve thee with a quiet mind — the Collect doesn’t ask for the adversity itself to vanish first, and it’s worth carrying into this morning 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 […]
Opening Address Fillest every living creature with blessing — not the deserving, not the grateful, not the ones who ask the right way, just every living creature, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, […]
Opening Address Redeeming the time — Paul’s instruction for exactly the kind of days that don’t make it easy, and it’s worth carrying into this morning 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 […]
Opening Address Chosen you out of the world — that’s the reason Christ gives his apostles for why the world will hate them, 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 […]
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 […]
Opening Address My kingdom is not of this world — that’s Christ’s own answer, standing bound in front of the one man in the room with actual worldly power to kill him, and it’s the whole of what we gather to consider today. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive […]
Opening Address Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it — that’s Christ’s own answer today to a woman shouting the loudest compliment she can think of, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive […]
Opening Address A companion on the journey — that’s what Raphael was to Tobias, nothing more dramatic than that at first glance, 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 […]
Opening Address An everlasting priesthood — today’s Epistle names something that does not tire, does not retire, and does not stop interceding, and it’s a fitting way to close out this first week of Bloom’s own record. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or […]









