Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Today is the Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel, a feast of the first class, and the vestments are white. The Gospel opens with the disciples asking Christ to settle a ranking question, and it closes at the tenth verse somewhere they were […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Blessed art thou that hast believed—six words spoken by one pregnant woman to another in a hill town, and the reason the Church gives us this Gospel today of all days. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning: however you arrive here, tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed elsewhere or shut […]
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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Let us all rejoice in the Lord, celebrating a feast day in honour of all the Saints. All of them. One morning, one Mass, and a congregation which no man could number. Beloved, grace and peace to you this Saturday, however you have come to be reading: certain, unravelling, or trying the first […]