Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, September 28, 2026, the feast of St. Wenceslaus, Duke and Martyr, a feast of the third class. His Gospel opens with a sword laid through the middle of a family and closes on a cup of cold water handed to one small person. The Church reads […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Epistle ends with five words that almost nobody quotes, and the whole morning turns on them: against such there is no law. This is offered in the Independent Catholic tradition, from the 1962 Roman Rite, and Bloom is not affiliated with […]
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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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Jul
Jul
Opening Address A father of orphans and the poor — that’s what heaven chose one former soldier to become, 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 […]
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Oct
Oct
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 […]