Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Epistle ends with five words that almost nobody quotes, and the whole morning turns on them: against such there is no law. This is offered in the Independent Catholic tradition, from the 1962 Roman Rite, and Bloom is not affiliated with […]
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Daily Offering
Daily Offering: August 29, 2026 | They Shall Fight Against Thee, and Shall Not Prevail
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Opening Address Good morning. They shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail. That is what God says to Jeremias at the end of today’s Lesson, and the Church hands us that sentence on the morning it remembers a man whose head was carried out of a prison on a serving dish. Hold both of […]
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Opening Address Today the Church keeps St. Joseph Calasanctius, a priest who spent fifty years running schools for children whose families could not pay, and the Gospel appointed for his Mass answers a question about rank by telling the men who asked it to become as little children. The disciples come to Jesus and ask […]
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Opening Address Today is a Wednesday feria, and the Church gives it no readings of its own. It repeats Sunday’s, word for word. One thing on the page is new, and it is a single prayer for a pope almost nobody remembers, which asks the Eternal Shepherd to look forgivingly on His flock and calls […]
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Opening Address Today the Church keeps St. Louis IX, King of France, and the Gospel appointed for his Mass is the one about the ten servants and the ten gold pieces. I want to say at the start what this parable is not, because it has been preached badly for a very long time. It […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Gospel gives us ten people healed and one person told something the other nine never heard, and the whole morning turns on that one sentence: thy faith hath made thee whole. This is offered in the Independent Catholic tradition, from the […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas. Today’s Epistle draws a small legal picture and then overturns it in a single line, and the line it lands on is the one we are staying with: an heir also through God. This is offered in the Independent Catholic […]
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Opening Address Follow thou me. Three words, and they are the whole of what one man is given on a morning when he asks a question about somebody else. Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, December 27, 2025. Today is the feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, second class, and the vestments are […]
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Opening Address I see the heavens opened. That is a sentence said by a man with stones already in the air around him, and it is the sentence this whole Mass decides to keep. Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, December 26, 2025. Today is the feast of St. Stephen, Protomartyr, second class, and […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Christmas Mass, the Mass at Midnight for the Nativity of Our Lord. The waiting is over, the violet is gone, and the Gospel of this Mass is the one most of the world can half-recite: a decree, a road, a manger, and a field full of working men who are […]