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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
Post-Brexit, Europe needs a new official language. If only there were one that stood for historic European unity….
A priest friend sent this. From TRTWorld.com with some emphases and comments. French call to replace English with Latin as Europe’s official language Met with scorn for now, the sentiment against English language is moving from the fringes to mainstream politics. An anti-English movement is … Read More
ITE AD IOSEPH! Go to Joseph! Wherein Fr. Z gives thanks to St. Joseph for help received.
This year has been dedicated to St. Joseph, who is Patron of the Dying, Terror of Demons and Protector of the Church. Wednesdays are customarily designated for Votive Masses of St. Joseph. Lately, because of upheaval in life, I entrusted … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ACTION ITEM!, Just Too Cool
Tagged Fr. Donald Calloway, St. Joseph
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15 Comments
Blind priest wants to learn the TLM, lots of challenges. Fr. Z offers help.
A couple months ago, I posted about the availability of the traditional Missale Romanum in Braille. HERE I also posted on help for a blind priest who wants to learn the Traditional Latin Mass HERE. Today, a reader sent me a link … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests
Tagged blind, braille, TLM
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1 Comment
Plus ça change
Some progressivists think that mankind has progressed to the point where we can reinterpret the Scriptures for our time in a way that contradicts their meaning, that we are mature now and we don’t have to kneel before God, that … Read More
The first oak selected for the new spire of Notre-Dame de Paris
Back in the day, far sighted people planted groves of trees for use decades in the future. Even the US Navy still does this, for the sake of USS Constitution. I remember in The Cardinal, the little parish Steve was … Read More
HUGE NEWS! IDENTIFIED: Remains of Servant of God, Army Chaplain Fr. Emil Kapaun (MofH in Korean War!)
This is terrific news! Today, I was notified that the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of Marion County-native Father Emil Kapaun. He served as an Army Chaplain during WWII and the Korean War, where he was taken as … Read More
JUST TOO COOL: 3000 year old royal purple fabric discovered in Israel (think… King David, Solomon)
Here is something for your Just Too Cool file. From SciTech Daily: A Glimpse Into the Royal Purple Wardrobe of King David and King Solomon – 3000 Years Ago “King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of … Read More
Burying the “Alleluia”
There is a lovely custom attached to Septuagesima Sunday and Pre-Lent: burying the Alleluia. At Septuagesima we stop, in the traditional rites, singing an Alleluia after the Gradual and, instead, sing a Tract. The Alleluia isn’t heard in Masses of … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, Save The Liturgy - Save The World
Tagged Alleluia, Septuagesima
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5 Comments
Navy Chaplain posthumously received the Navy Cross
Here is something that I had readied for posting and then, given recent events, the draft scrolled away from my view. Take a moment to check out this piece at the Navy Times about the posthumous awarding of the Navy Cross … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Priests and Priesthood, The future and our choices
Tagged Navy Chaplains
3 Comments
3 Comments
OKC Catholic Dad on Daily Rome Shot 1676 – good news: “+Sis was pastor at Texas A&M and left just before I got there. However, +Konderla (another of the good ones,…”
