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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
The future depends on diocesan priests
My good friend Fr B – whom I hope to see soon – sent notice of a gathering of priests and future priests in New Jersey. A group of diocesan priests got together with the mighty Fr Pasley of Mater … Read More
Curiouser and curiouser!
A reader sent a link to a photo of the new Mars Rover, Curiosity, just as it was being sealed into its capsule for the ride to Mars! Another great shot HERE. For more, HERE.
Some photos and comments and thanks
Here are some photos I have pulled out of my phone, in no special order. I visited Greenwich the other day and, coming up from the Thames into the great quadrangle I saw this in the pavement. The birthplace of … Read More
New Kindle available in the UK
Since I am in the London right now, I perked up when I found that the new Kindle from amazon is available in the UK. Here are some USA links and comments on the Kindle I posted elsewhere. I have … Read More
Exhibit on the historical inspiration for Capt. Jack Aubrey!
This is for your Just Too Cool folder. BBC reports: Admiral Cochrane artefacts go on display for first time The life of an admiral who inspired the character Jack Aubrey, portrayed in the film Master and Commander, is to form … Read More
Posted in Crackit Gaberlunzie, Just Too Cool, O'Brian Tags, Puir Slow-Witted Gowk
Tagged Catp. Aubrey, Lord Cochrane, Patrick O'Brian
8 Comments
8 Comments
Card. Piacenza to seminarians:”Your will probably be the first generation that will correctly interpret the Second Vatican Council”
On 4 October the Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, His Eminence Mauro Card. Piacenza (I have liked this guy for a long time) gave a talk to seminarians in Los Angeles. The whole text is on the site of … Read More
Mass with a special amice
This morning I had the privilege of saying Holy Mass wearing an amice of St. John Vianney.
Earliest Christian inscription identified? Maybe?
There is an old adage which everyone, people who participate on blogs included, ought to kind in mind: Scripta manent… Things that are written down endure. In a story posted on Fox News I read about the possible identification of … Read More
“Joy fall to thee, father Francis, / Drawn to the Life that died”
Last night in our poetry reading group we spent the whole time on Gerard Manley Hopkins’, “The Wreck of the Deutschland“, inspired by a shipwreck in storm in which five Franciscan sisters were drowned. They were fleeing the kulturkampf in … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool
Tagged Gerarld Manly Hopkins, St. Francis, Wreck of the Deutschland
17 Comments
17 Comments
Marine Corps Birthday News
Some of you long time readers here and of my columns in The Wanderer might recall that over the years from time to time I have mentioned a wonderful couple, an active duty Marine Corps officer, M, and his wife, … Read More
Brian64 on 21 Oct – St Gaspar del Bufalo – “Hammer of Freemasons”: “And here I always thought Archbishop Bugnini was “Hammer of Freemasons”. Oh, he was “Hammer FOR Freemasons”.”
