Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, October 12, 2026, a feria after the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, in green. No saint is kept today and there is no commemoration, so the Missal says the Sunday’s Mass again, without the Gloria or the Creed, with the Common Preface. This morning listens […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, October 11, 2026. The vestments are green. The Mass is the Sunday’s own, second class, and the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose feast falls on this date, is kept as a commemoration in the prayers. Today’s Lesson ends on a […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, October 10, 2026, the feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor, third class, in white. There is no commemoration. The Gloria is said, there is no Creed, and the Preface is the Common Preface. Today’s Collect gives Christ a title worth carrying all day: he is the […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, October 9, 2026, the feast of St. John Leonardi, Confessor, third class, in white, with a commemoration of Ss. Dionysius, Rusticus and Eleutherius, martyrs. The Gloria is said, there is no Creed, and the Preface is the Common Preface. Today’s Epistle carries a line of Paul’s […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, October 8, 2026, the feast of St. Bridget of Sweden, widow, third class, in white, with a commemoration of Ss. Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus and Apuleius, martyrs. The Gloria is said, there is no Creed, and the Preface is the Common Preface. At the centre of today’s […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, October 6, 2026, the feast of St. Bruno, Confessor, third class, in white. His Collect asks that we, who have grievously offended, may obtain forgiveness for our offences by his merits and prayers. That one petition is the whole of what is new on the altar […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, October 5, 2026. Today is a feria of the fourth class, the Monday after the XIX Sunday after Pentecost, with a commemoration of St. Placid and his Companions, Martyrs. Nothing is displaced. The Mass of the day is yesterday’s Mass, said again on a weekday, and […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church gives us the parable of the marriage feast: a king whose invitation is refused, a hall filled from the highways, and one guest found without a wedding garment. That garment has been used as a weapon for a very […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, October 3, 2026. Today the Church keeps the feast of St. Theresa of the Infant Jesus, a Virgin, in the third class, and the vestments are white. Nothing is commemorated and nothing is displaced, so the Saturday gives way to her completely and every prayer in […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, October 2, 2026. Today is the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels, a feast of the third class, and the vestments are white. There is no commemoration, and nothing is displaced. The whole Mass turns on one sentence of Exodus, in which God sends an angel […]