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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
SSPX Bp. Fellay in Rome to receive Pope Benedict’s decision about the Doctrinal Preamble. PRAY!
Three people have come up to me with questions. I am getting text messages on my phone. It seems SSPX Superior Bishop Bernard Fellay is in Rome to meet with officials of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith … Read More
Not Just Too Cool but Super Too Cool
I will do more about this later, since I am in a moving bus, but this news got me worked up. Some has discovered 29 unknown sermons of the 3rd century Alexandrian theologian Origen. The intrepid Tornielli in Vatican Insider … Read More
Geeky and Beautiful
For your “Look! Up In The Sky!” file, you Transit of Venus fans will want to watch the ultra-hi-def video of different views of the transit. This is from the Sun people at NASA and Astronomy Pic of the Day, … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!, O'Brian Tags
Tagged APOD, gralloch, NASA, Pres. Obama, Transit of Venus
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Fascinating news about the Shroud of Turin. WDTPRS POLL
For your Just Too Cool file. From Vatican Insider Pollen is evidence that the Holy Shroud is indeed a winding sheet According to university researchers the pollen found in the Turin Shroud corresponds to that of flowers used for funerals … Read More
Traditional rite of Confirmation
I received some nice photos of Confirmation in the older form of the Roman Rite administered by His Excellency Most Rev. Michael Burbidge, Bishop of Raleigh. There is so much to like about this one. WDTPRS kudos to Bp. Burbidge … Read More
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I want one of these! If we can’t use iPads for Mass, there are still a lot of other things we can still use them for. Having an external keyboard really helps. Not quite as portable, however.
Man in “coma” cries when he hears fiance’s voice on the phone
With a tip of the biretta to CMR: A young man who’s been in a coma for a months started crying when his parents put the phone to his ear so he could hear his fiance. Wow. This is pretty … Read More
In living, and dying, color.
Someone sent a link to rare color photos from World War II. Here is one: And another:
Strawberry Moon
Yesterday (and early today) was the super rare Transit of Venus, but a while back there was a spiffing eclipse of the Moon. Here is a great photo from Astronomy Pic of the Day, of said eclipse over Cody, WY, … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged coffee, lunar eclipse, Mystic Monk Coffee, Wyoming
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TRANSIT OF VENUS TODAY – rarest of all eclipses – 5 June 22:10 UTC – 6 June 4:50 UTC – the last in our lifetimes
LIVE: http://venustransit.nasa.gov/transitofvenus/ NOTE THE TIMES, below, in UNIVERSAL TIME. Explanation: Today Venus moves in front of the Sun. One way to follow this rare event is to actively reload the above live image of the Sun during the right time interval and look for an … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged 2117, eclipse, Hubble Telescope, moon, sun, Transit of Venus, Venus
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Benedict Joseph on Are things as bad as the seem? Auctores scinduntur.: “When will we banish from the Catholic lexicon “reform” and “renewal”? They serve only the cause of mendacity. Let’s call…”
