Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, and the Lesson ends this morning the way it ended on Sunday and twice since: with a prayer that you may abound in hope. Not hold on to some. Not keep enough to be going on with. Abound. This is the Feria VI after the Second Sunday of […]
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09
Dec
Dec
Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, and today the Church gives you a text you were given two days ago, on the grounds that it was written for our learning and learning is not a thing that happens once. This is the Feria III after the Second Sunday of Advent, third class, and the […]
07
Dec
Dec
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and this morning the Church asks you to receive one another, which is a smaller instruction than it sounds and a harder one to get out of. This is the Second Sunday of Advent, first class, and the vestments are violet for a second week. We offer this Mass in […]
30
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and the Church’s instruction for the first morning of a new year is to put on the armour of light. Not to take stock, not to strip down, not to begin again from nothing—to get dressed. This is the First Sunday of Advent, the vestments are violet, and a new […]
23
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and this is the last one of the Church’s year. Next Sunday is the First Sunday of Advent and the vestments go violet, so this morning closes the long green season—and the Church closes it by reading you twenty-one verses about the end of everything and then handing you, in […]
20
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. That is the first thing said this morning, and everything else in the passage comes after it. Beloved, grace and peace to you, however you arrive at this hour: rested or worn through, praying easily or not praying […]
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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and the Church opens this one by telling you what God is thinking about you: I think thoughts of peace, and not of affliction. 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 […]
09
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and today the Gospel says plainly why one man could not see Christ: he could not for the crowd. 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 […]
02
Nov
Nov
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and today it opens on four words that the Gospel puts in two different mouths: have patience with me. 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 […]
19
Oct
Oct
Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, offered today in the Independent Catholic tradition — not affiliated with or recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, but standing in the same apostolic lineage, the same Roman Rite, the same devotion, held by a pastor for whom this tradition has always been home. Beloved, grace and peace to you […]
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