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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Sep
Sep
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, September 21, 2026, the feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, a feast of the second class. The Gospel this morning is the one about him, and it does not open with a changed life. It opens with a man sitting in the custom house, at […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address Oil in their vessels—four words that separate one half of today’s Gospel from the other half, and they’re 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 […]
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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 […]
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Aug
Aug
Opening Address The chains fell off — three of the plainest, most physical words in all of Scripture, and today’s whole feast is built around them. 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 […]
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Jul
Jul
Opening Address Possessing all things — that’s how Paul describes a life that, by every visible measure, has nothing at all, and it’s the whole key to today’s feast. 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 […]
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Jul
Jul
Opening Address Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? That’s the question Christ actually asks, today’s feast, when a mother comes requesting glory for her two sons. 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 […]
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Jul
Jul
Opening Address A pearl of great price — that’s what today’s Gospel says is worth selling everything else to keep, and it’s exactly what a ten-year-old girl apparently understood better than most adults ever do. Beloved, grace and peace to you this morning — however you arrive here: tired or hopeful, certain or doubting, welcomed […]
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Jul
Jul
Opening Address A spirit of wisdom and fortitude — that’s the specific grace the Church asks for 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 […]
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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 […]