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Daily Offering: December 18, 2025 | Surpasseth All Understanding

Surpasseth all understanding — four upturned chairs stacked against the wall of an empty parish hall and one chair left standing by a plain table in flat winter daylight

Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, and the Lesson ends this morning on a sentence that asks nothing of you at all—a peace which surpasseth all understanding. This is the Feria V after the Third Sunday of Advent, second class, and the vestments are violet. There is no saint on the calendar, nothing displaced, […]

Daily Offering: December 15, 2025 | What Sayest Thou of Thyself

What sayest thou of thyself — a printed sheet on a plain table in a bare waiting room, three empty tick boxes ruled down one side and a wide blank space below them, in flat winter daylight

Opening Address Bloom’s Daily Offering for Monday, and the Gospel this morning is a short interview in which the interesting question comes last—what sayest thou of thyself. This is the Feria II after the Third Sunday of Advent, third class, and the vestments are violet again. Yesterday they were rose for one morning; today the […]

Sunday Mass: December 14, 2025 | Let Your Petitions Be Made Known

Let your petitions be made known — a paper list pinned to a plaster wall with a pencil on a string beside it, in bright daylight from a skylight above scuffed floorboards

Opening Address Bloom’s Sunday Mass, and the Church begins this morning by telling you to be glad and then, in the same breath, telling you to ask for something—so let your petitions be made known. This is the Third Sunday of Advent, first class, the Sunday the Church calls Gaudete, and the vestments may be […]