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Daily Offering: December 22, 2025 | Come to Our Aid

An open five-bar gate onto a rutted lane at first light after December rain — an Advent prayer that asks God to come to our aid rather than to clear the road first

Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, December 22, 2025. Today is a feria of the fourth week of Advent, second class, and the vestments are violet. There is no feast, no saint, no commemoration, and not one word in today’s Mass that was not said yesterday. So the whole morning belongs to […]

Sunday Mass: December 21, 2025 | Judge Not Before the Time

Judge not before the time — an empty panelled hall with rows of plain benches and a closed ledger on a bare table, in flat winter daylight from tall clear windows

Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and Paul spends this morning’s Lesson telling a congregation to stop the trial they have already started, so judge not before the time. This is the Fourth Sunday of Advent, first class, violet, the last Sunday the Church will give us before the feast. We offer this Mass in the […]