Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, September 11, 2026. Today is the Feria VI after the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. Ss. Protus and Hyacinth, Martyrs, are commemorated after the Collect, and their own Secret asks God for the remedy of eternal salvation. That is the […]
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Sep
Sep
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Wednesday, September 9, 2026. Today is the Feria IV after the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. St. Gorgonius, Martyr, is commemorated after the Collect, and his own Collect asks that he gladden us by his intercession. That is the phrase we […]
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Sep
Sep
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, September 7, 2026. Today is the Feria II after the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green again. There is no feast, no commemoration and nothing displaced, and every text appointed for today is the text we prayed yesterday. The one prayer […]
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Aug
Aug
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 […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Stand her ground—that is what today’s prayer asks for the Church, in those words, and it is a stranger request than it first sounds. 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 […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address The same Spirit — that’s the phrase Paul refuses to stop repeating in today’s Epistle, hammering it four separate times in a single breath, 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 […]
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Jul
Jul
Opening Address A den of thieves — that’s the harsh accusation Christ levels at the very Temple meant to be “a house of prayer,” and it’s the specific verse this Daily Offering turns to today. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut […]
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Dec
Dec
Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, and the Lesson ends this morning on a sentence that asks nothing of you at all—a peace which surpasseth all understanding. This is the Feria V after the Third Sunday of Advent, second class, and the vestments are violet. There is no saint on the calendar, nothing displaced, […]
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Dec
Dec
Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, and the Gospel this morning is a short interview in which the interesting question comes last—what sayest thou of thyself. This is the Feria II after the Third Sunday of Advent, third class, and the vestments are violet again. Yesterday they were rose for one morning; today the […]
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Dec
Dec
Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, and the Lesson ends this morning the way it ended on Sunday and twice since: with a prayer that you may abound in hope. Not hold on to some. Not keep enough to be going on with. Abound. This is the Feria VI after the Second Sunday of […]
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