Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Epistle ends on five words that have been used as a wall for nineteen centuries, and the whole morning turns on reading them in the order Paul wrote them: the household of the faith. This is offered in the Independent Catholic […]
Tag Archives: formerly incarcerated
06
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Eyewitnesses of his greatness — that’s how Peter describes what happened on the mountain, decades later, still insisting it wasn’t a story he’d made up. 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 […]
22
Jul
Jul
Opening Address She loved much — that’s the whole verdict Christ hands down today, 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 out elsewhere. Bloom is not a room you have […]
28
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, and the psalm sung between the readings this morning opens with a finished sentence: thou hast saved us. Not save us. Not thou wilt save us one day when the paperwork is done. Today is a fourth-class feria in green, with no saint, no feast and no commemoration […]
22
Oct
Oct
Opening Address He that stole, let him now steal no more — not a condemnation of someone’s past, but an instruction for what comes after it, and worth sitting with before anything else is said this morning. Beloved, grace and peace to you today — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, […]