Tag Archives: Matthew 22

Sunday Mass: October 4, 2026 | My Ways May Be Directed

A long table in a plain hall at midday with every chair turned outward toward open doors, the hall of the marriage feast filled from the highways, where the only prayer asked of anyone is that my ways may be directed

Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church gives us the parable of the marriage feast: a king whose invitation is refused, a hall filled from the highways, and one guest found without a wedding garment. That garment has been used as a weapon for a very […]

Sunday Mass: September 20, 2026 | The Bond of Peace

An old three-stranded rope coiled on pale boards in morning light with one end frayed open, an image of what the bond of peace is actually made of

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 […]

Daily Offering: September 18, 2026 | A Tinkling Cymbal

A single small bronze cymbal lying alone on a plain wooden table in morning daylight, its pair missing, an image of a tinkling cymbal that makes noise and nothing else

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 […]