Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Daily Offering for Friday, September 18, 2026, the feast of St. Joseph of Cupertino, Confessor, a feast of the third class. The Lesson this morning is the chapter everybody knows, and its first sentence takes a man who can speak every language there is, human and otherwise, and says that […]
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Sep
Sep
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 […]
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Sep
Sep
Opening Address Welcome to Bloom’s Sunday Mass for the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Epistle ends on five words that have been used as a wall for nineteen centuries, and the whole morning turns on reading them in the order Paul wrote them: the household of the faith. This is offered in the Independent Catholic […]