Tag Archives: forgiveness

Daily Offering: October 6, 2026 | Obtain Forgiveness For Our Offenses

A small stone monastery in an alpine valley at morning, for the feast of St. Bruno, whose Collect asks that we obtain forgiveness for our offenses

Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, October 6, 2026, the feast of St. Bruno, Confessor, third class, in white. His Collect asks that we, who have grievously offended, may obtain forgiveness for our offences by his merits and prayers. That one petition is the whole of what is new on the altar […]

Daily Offering: August 28, 2026 | Great Hope in Your Forgiveness

A sunlit ancient road between stone walls and olive trees with a worn milestone at the roadside

Opening Address Today the Church prays for people on whom God has bestowed great hope in Your forgiveness. That is the Collect for August 28, the feast of St. Augustine, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church, and it is a strange prayer to find on the calendar of the man who wrote more about […]

Sunday Mass: November 2, 2025 | Have Patience With Me

Have patience with me — a torn paper note lying open on a long wooden counting table beside closed ledger books

Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and today it opens on four words that the Gospel puts in two different mouths: have patience with me. We offer this Mass in the Independent Catholic tradition—not affiliated with or recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, but standing in the same Roman Rite, held by a pastor for whom […]