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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
“Whatever comes out of these gates, we have better chance of survival if we work together”
Before I go off to sleep … after the GOP debate, I am watching a bit of the movie Gladiator. I have a certain affinity with the protagonist. I, too… well… never mind. And I can imagine some liberal bishop … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare
Tagged costume, exploitation of women, gladiator, Russell Crowe
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12 Comments
Sodom and Gomorrah excavated. Guess how they were wiped out.
A reading from the Book of Genesis: Gen 19: 24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomor’rah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the … Read More
A great Shadow… with a few book notes.
There is a very cool pic on Astronomy Pic of the Day. There was recently a lunar eclipse. I missed it because I was in Florida where it rained for about 4 solid days without CEASING. But that’s another story. … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Copernicus, Dava Sobel, Galileo, Longitude, lunar eclipse
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9 Comments
Learning Latin responses for the TLM
Every once in a while I get a request to record the Latin responses for the TLM so that people who want to serve Mass can learn them more easily. A friend sent me a link to online recordings made … Read More
Wyoming Catholic College Video
From time to time I have mentioned Wyoming Catholic College, which trains students in a modified form of the Trivium and Quadrivium, and makes sure they know their Latin, have the TLM, and how to take care of a horse. … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged great books, Quadrivium, Trivium, Wyoming Catholic College
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47 Comments
Stave by Stave: The great Fr. Perrone writes his first Mass!
Here is one for your “brick by brick” file. My friend, the distinguished Church musician Fr. Eduard Perrone, pastor at Assumption Grotto in Detroit, has written a Mass, to be used during the Christmas season, in honor of the Blessed … Read More
Matters papyrological
I am visiting my mother, at the moment. She is the only person I know with her very own papyrus stand! As you may know, papyrus gives us the English word “paper”. No, she isn’t making her own papyrus manuscripts. … Read More
Smoking Bishop and a Cat named Jeoffry
A reader alerted me to this wonderful bit of lore on the blog Spitalfields Life. Enjoy this with a glass of negus, which it’s something Preserved Killick will know about. Nowadays, we may celebrate Christmas with a glass or four … Read More
D. Covington: Bp. Foys issues liturgical decrees – No joy for “hand holders”
There can be no renewal of any aspect of our Catholic lives and identity without first a revitalization of our liturgical worship. A reader sent me a link to a letter of 18 November 2011 and accompanying decrees concerning the … Read More
Atlantis rises: US seminaries are changing
It isn’t rocket science. The theological and moral bizzaro-world into which US seminaries sank Atlantis-like over the decades of the 60s to the 80s is over. They didn’t sink in a day, and they won’t be raised in a day … Read More
