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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
7 February 2012
Happy 200th Birthday Charles Dickens!
In happier news, today is the 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens.
Let’s have a poll!
And please give your reasons in the combox!
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6 February 2012
Ad multos annos Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II became Queen 60 years ago today.
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5 February 2012
Triumph in Miami
On 2 February, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, there was a Pontifical Mass in Miami, celebrated by His Excellency Most Rev. Thomas Wenski.
Before I get to the liturgical eye-candy and some commentary on the meaning … Continue reading
4 February 2012
Nix
The webcam pointed at St. Peter’s Square in Rome shows something I only saw a couple times in all my years in Rome.
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3 February 2012
Snowy St. Peter’s Square: video
Snowy St. Peter’s Square
Click HERE for live webcam.
Posted in Just Too Cool
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1 February 2012
True marriage is for life
I enjoyed this story from CNA:
Winners of 2012 Longest Married Couple contest announced
San Bernardino, Calif., Feb 1, 2012 / 03:39 am (CNA).- The faith-based marriage enrichment program Worldwide Marriage Encounter has announced the 2012 state winners of its Longest Married … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices
Tagged DOMA, marriage
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31 January 2012
A new view
I have from time to time written about putting on a pair of “resurrection glasses”, (e.g., here), about trying to see people as God intends them to be in heaven.
Here is a variation on this theme which I picked up … Continue reading
The world is going to hell in a handbasket, so, let’s watch a funny video!
The economy is a disaster, the Obama Administration is eroding our civil liberty, the world seems to be going to hell.
So, let’s have a video.
Who can forget the spectacular commercial with the little kid dressed as Darth Vader?
Again from VW … Continue reading
30 January 2012
In art news… something great for people in the USA
I like Vermeer. Therefore, I was pleased to read on The History Blog that Vermeer’s “Girl With A Pearl Earring” is coming to the USA.
It will be part of an exhibit.
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The new exhibition, “Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch … Continue reading
Another view
From Astronomy Pic of the Day:
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28 January 2012
Loquerisne latine?
How about a news report from Germany in Latin?
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Lego mannnn! In spaaaaaace!
This is very cool.
I wonder if they would have obtained better shots of the earth were the lego man not the object of the camera’s focus. Where there was more movement, the camera focused on the earth. Still… wow! Right?
More … Continue reading
26 January 2012
Statue of Our Lady at 1571 Battle of Lepanto comes to light!
An alert reader sent me to an interesting article in Spanish at ABC about the original statue of Our Lady given by Venice to don Juan de Austria that was on the quarterdeck of his flagship (more properly “lantern galley”) … Continue reading
25 January 2012
Struggling with going to confession? Take heart from a reader.
Struggling with going to confession? Take heart from a reader:
I’ve recently begun reading your blog with regularity and was moved by
your frequent and urgent calls to the sacrament of confession. I’ve
started trying to make a regular monthly confession, and … Continue reading
23 January 2012
A near disaster reconstructed
On a completely different note, remember that USAir flight taking off from LaGuardia in Queens which hits birds, lost both engines and had to land in the Hudson River?
There is a digital reconstruction of the flight from the data in the “black … Continue reading
