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 […]
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Sep
Sep
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Today is the Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel, a feast of the first class, and the vestments are white. The Gospel opens with the disciples asking Christ to settle a ranking question, and it closes at the tenth verse somewhere they were […]
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Aug
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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Nov
Nov
Opening Address Paul spends four verses handing out equipment and one verse saying what the equipment is for, and almost everyone reads the four and skips the one. The armour of God is famous. The sentence that tells you who you are wearing it against is not famous at all, and it says, flatly, that […]