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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]


