Tag Archives: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Daily Offering: September 17, 2026 | The Fire of Thy Love

A fire just catching in a plain stone hearth in a cold bare room at first light — a prayer that the fire of Thy love be lit in a world gone cold, by a hand that is not ours

Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, September 17, 2026. Today is a feria of the sixteenth week after Pentecost, fourth class, and the Mass is Sunday’s Mass said again without a word altered. What today adds is a commemoration, and the commemoration brings three prayers this ministry has never printed. We are going to […]

Sunday Mass: September 13, 2026 | Rooted and Founded in Charity

A cutaway bank of earth showing a hedge's pale roots spreading wide and deep beneath the turf in autumn daylight, a picture of being rooted and founded in charity

Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today the Church puts a dinner party and a letter written out of somebody’s troubles side by side, and asks that we be rooted and founded in charity, which is the only thing either reading wants for anybody. This is offered in […]