Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Tuesday, September 15, 2026, the feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a feast of the second class, with a commemoration of St. Nicomedes, Martyr. The Gradual this morning calls Our Lady sorrowful and tearful, and then it stops. Sorrowful and tearful is the […]
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Opening Address Good morning, and welcome. Today is Saturday, the twenty-second of November, and the Church keeps St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr, third class. Before a single reading, before the saint is so much as described, the entrance chant hands us four words about somebody’s standing: I was not ashamed. The day the temporal calendar […]
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Opening Address The Church has one instruction for a shepherd, and today it gives that instruction three times before the homily starts. Feed my lambs, feed my sheep, says the Introit. Feed the flock of God which is among you, says the Epistle, not by constraint, but willingly. Three imperatives and one adverb, and the […]
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Opening Address Three mornings in a row the same Mass has opened with the same sentence, and the sentence is a claim about power: there is none that can resist thy will. Sunday said it, Wednesday said it again, and today says it a third time in green, with nothing else on the calendar. That […]