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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Sep
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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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 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 1, 2026. Today is a feria of the fourteenth week after Pentecost, fourth class, and the vestments are green. Two saints are commemorated in the prayers, and one of those prayers asks God to give us joy from the brotherly crown of His martyrs. That […]