Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, October 11, 2026. The vestments are green. The Mass is the Sunday’s own, second class, and the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose feast falls on this date, is kept as a commemoration in the prayers. Today’s Lesson ends on a […]
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Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Saturday, October 10, 2026, the feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor, third class, in white. There is no commemoration. The Gloria is said, there is no Creed, and the Preface is the Common Preface. Today’s Collect gives Christ a title worth carrying all day: he is the […]
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Oct
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, October 9, 2026, the feast of St. John Leonardi, Confessor, third class, in white, with a commemoration of Ss. Dionysius, Rusticus and Eleutherius, martyrs. The Gloria is said, there is no Creed, and the Preface is the Common Preface. Today’s Epistle carries a line of Paul’s […]
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Oct
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Thursday, October 8, 2026, the feast of St. Bridget of Sweden, widow, third class, in white, with a commemoration of Ss. Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus and Apuleius, martyrs. The Gloria is said, there is no Creed, and the Preface is the Common Preface. At the centre of today’s […]
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Aug
Opening Address Today the Church keeps St. Joseph Calasanctius, a priest who spent fifty years running schools for children whose families could not pay, and the Gospel appointed for his Mass answers a question about rank by telling the men who asked it to become as little children. The disciples come to Jesus and ask […]
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Aug
Opening Address Today is a Wednesday feria, and the Church gives it no readings of its own. It repeats Sunday’s, word for word. One thing on the page is new, and it is a single prayer for a pope almost nobody remembers, which asks the Eternal Shepherd to look forgivingly on His flock and calls […]
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Aug
Opening Address Today the Church keeps St. Louis IX, King of France, and the Gospel appointed for his Mass is the one about the ten servants and the ten gold pieces. I want to say at the start what this parable is not, because it has been preached badly for a very long time. It […]
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Dec
Oppening Address The glory of Jerusalem is a title, and titles have a history. Today the Church says it to a girl in Nazareth who has not yet answered the angel, and it is worth knowing where the Church got the sentence. It did not compose it for her. It found it already in use, […]
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Opening Address Nothing in today’s Mass is new except three prayers. Every reading, every antiphon and every sung line of it was heard nine days ago, on the feast of a different teacher, and the Church has used the whole of it again for John of the Cross. What is his alone is a Collect, […]
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Opening Address Today the Church keeps Albert the Great, and the Mass she gives him is the Mass of a Doctor. The Collect asks that we follow the path of his teaching. The Introit says a man’s mouth was opened in the middle of the assembly and that he was filled and clothed for the […]
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