Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, October 12, 2026, a feria after the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, fourth class, in green. No saint is kept today and there is no commemoration, so the Missal says the Sunday’s Mass again, without the Gloria or the Creed, with the Common Preface. This morning listens […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, September 21, 2026, the feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, a feast of the second class. The Gospel this morning is the one about him, and it does not open with a changed life. It opens with a man sitting in the custom house, at […]
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Opening Address Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace. That is not an invitation. It is an instruction, and the word sitting in the middle of it has no business being there. Confidence. Beloved, grace and peace to you this Saturday morning, however you have arrived: steady or shaking, praying for […]