Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, September 25, 2026. Today is Ember Friday of September, second class, a fast day with its own complete Mass, and at the centre of its Lesson God says a sentence this ministry has never printed before: I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely. […]
Tag Archives: gospel of luke
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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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Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and today it opens on four words that indict a great deal of religion: the letter killeth. 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 this tradition […]
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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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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it—that is Christ’s own correction of a compliment, and it’s the sentence to carry 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 […]
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Aug
Opening Address Of more value than many sparrows — that’s Christ’s own measure of worth, spoken to people who had every reason to fear their worth was about to be tested by death itself, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however you arrive […]
08
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Open to him immediately — that’s the specific instruction Christ gives about what to do the moment the knock actually comes, 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 […]
07
Aug
Aug
Opening Address Lamps burning in your hands — that’s the specific image Christ gives for the kind of waiting He actually wants from us, 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 […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it — that’s Christ’s own answer when a woman in the crowd praises His mother in the most physical terms available to her, and it’s worth carrying into this morning before anything else is said. Beloved, grace and peace to you: however […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Found watching — that’s the specific condition Christ names as blessed in today’s Gospel, and what happens next is stranger and more generous than most readers expect. 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 […]