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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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church hands us a letter that tells a congregation exactly what the bond of peace is made of, and a Gospel in which the experts are asked one question and cannot answer it. This is offered in the Independent Catholic […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, September 19, 2026, the feast of Ss. Januarius and his Companions, Martyrs, a feast of the third class. The Lesson this morning remembers a congregation that was made a gazingstock, and then, in the same breath, remembers the people who decided to stand where they could […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, September 18, 2026, the feast of St. Joseph of Cupertino, Confessor, a feast of the third class. The Lesson this morning is the chapter everybody knows, and its first sentence takes a man who can speak every language there is, human and otherwise, and says that […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, September 17, 2026. Today is a feria of the sixteenth week after Pentecost, fourth class, and the Mass is Sunday’s Mass said again without a word altered. What today adds is a commemoration, and the commemoration brings three prayers this ministry has never printed. We are going to […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Wednesday, September 16, 2026. Today the Church keeps Ss. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs, third class, with a commemoration of Ss. Euphemia, Lucy and Geminianus. Two men, one Mass, one Collect between them. The Church names Cornelius and Cyprian in a single breath and does not […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 15, 2026, the feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a feast of the second class, with a commemoration of St. Nicomedes, Martyr. The Gradual this morning calls Our Lady sorrowful and tearful, and then it stops. Sorrowful and tearful is the […]
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A feast of an execution device, and a Gospel that puts the court on trial at the very moment it kills Him. The judgment of the world, September 14, 2026.
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church puts a dinner party and a letter written out of somebody’s troubles side by side, and asks that we be rooted and founded in charity, which is the only thing either reading wants for anybody. This is offered in […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, September 12, 2026. Today is the Most Holy Name of Mary, third class, and the vestments are white. There is no commemoration. The Collect asks that those who delight in her name be delivered from all evils on earth, and that phrase is where we are […]