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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
2012 About.com Awards: We are the winner, in the best blog category
Many thank to all of you who voted for this blog in the About.com awards. We prevailed in the Best Catholic Blog category. I am also glad that so many other good blogs and sites and publications were highlighted during … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, Non Nobis and Te Deum, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged about.com, award, best blog, New Media, winner
30 Comments
30 Comments
“Sinite parvulos venire ad me!”, or, A picture is worth a thousands words.
In the last couple weeks I have had posts about boys playing “Mass”, one had a great video, one had a photo I took of a photo at the funeral of a 60-year priest. Yesterday I posted in a review of … Read More
Of heavenly conjunctions, the turning of the spheres, and astrological divination
Last night and the night before I went out into the crisp darkness to gaze for a while at a celestial conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and a sliver of a Crescent moon, all gathered directly under the Pleiades. This spiffing … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged astrology, Astronomy, conjunction, Galileo, Tertullian
31 Comments
31 Comments
Beating the devil! The “Madonna del Soccorso”
People seem finally to be noticing the image of Mary (as of this writing – it’ll probably change one day) on the sidebar. All of sudden I am getting email about it. The image is that of a “Madonna del … Read More
Kansas: Priest says a prayer before House session. Hijinx ensues.
Priests and lay people need to rally around Card. Dolan and the whole USCCB in its effort to uphold the 1st Amendment, religious liberty rights not only of Catholics, but of all Americans in the face of blatant attacks by … Read More
Benedict XVI sends Apostolic Blessing, Indulgence for opening of Extraordinary Form church
Brick by brick across the Mersey River: Press Release from the Diocese of Shrewsbury Sunday 18th March 2012 For immediate release: Pope Benedict XVI offers blessing and indulgence to mark reopening of landmark Wirral church Pope Benedict XVI is offering … Read More
The Feeder Feed: Singing Bird Pistols
Combining favorite things. This isn’t at the Feeder as much as it is at Christie’s auction block. Singing Bird Pistols. Ingenious. Man can be so clever. They sold for $5.8 million. (This video is no longer available.)
PRAYERCAzT: The Lorica of St. Patrick
The Latin word loríca means “a leather cuirass; a defense of any kind; a breastwork, parapet”. In effect, it means “armor”. It has come to be associated with a prayer attributed to St. Patrick (+ 5th c.) . “Loríca” is … Read More
Lex Orandi Lex Credendi Swag now available!
I finally received my Lex Orandi Lex Credendi car magnet (top) and semi-transparent (bottom) car window decal. Here they are with a 6 inch ruler for scale. They are 10″x 3″. The colors are great, very vivid! I put the … Read More
One of the coolest measurements of all: Zettameters!
Learn something new everyday, is what I always say. Today I learned that there is a zettameter, which is a sextillion 1021 meters and there is a yottameter, which is a septillion 1024 meters. There is also, for really small … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Order of magnitude, yoctometer, yottameter, zeptameter, zettameter
22 Comments
22 Comments
NickD on ROME 26/10– Day 21: fountain: “The sister does not name these Saints that supposedly support her argument. Anyone have any idea about whom she’s talking?…”
