Tag Archives: second sunday of advent

Daily Offering: December 12, 2025 | Abound in Hope

Abound in hope — old brass balance scales on a plain wooden counter, both pans empty and hanging level in flat morning daylight

Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, and the Lesson ends this morning the way it ended on Sunday and twice since: with a prayer that you may abound in hope. Not hold on to some. Not keep enough to be going on with. Abound. This is the Feria VI after the Second Sunday of […]

Daily Offering: December 9, 2025 | Written for Our Learning

Written for our learning — a footpath worn bare across a winter field under flat overcast light, a low hedge closing the far end

Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, and today the Church gives you a text you were given two days ago, on the grounds that it was written for our learning and learning is not a thing that happens once. This is the Feria III after the Second Sunday of Advent, third class, and the […]

Sunday Mass: December 7, 2025 | Receive One Another

Receive one another — a heavy wooden door standing open from a bare stone room onto a bright dusty road running downhill in flat noon light, a rough stool beside the doorway

Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and this morning the Church asks you to receive one another, which is a smaller instruction than it sounds and a harder one to get out of. This is the Second Sunday of Advent, first class, and the vestments are violet for a second week. We offer this Mass in […]