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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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- CasaSanBruno on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Ubi caritas…. So much mercy since 2013.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Maybe the organizers can offer to bring their boyfriends.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Boy, certain folks REALLY hate Pope Benedict XVI… They must try to erase anything to do with Summorum Pontificum.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “They really do hate us. Where is our Holy Father in this? Is he knowingly allowing this cruelty? I can’t…”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Another case for SSPX necessity. They all add up.”
- on ROME 26/10– Day 22: Colors and courses and Coco: “1. N-g6+ If . . . . . . . K-f7 2. R-e7+ . K-g8 3. Q×g7# So . .…”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Heretics (Anglicans) and schismatics (Orthodox) get treated more generously. The beatings will continue…”
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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
My next novel is all lined up!
I think I’ll start writing a Catholic science-fiction novel. Well… maybe not. I am more of the secret Vatican vampire assassin squad kind of guy. Gotta be more readers there. But if I did write a Catholic science fiction novel, … Read More
Just too cool stuff
I remain a real fan of the Mars Rover missions. One of the readers here, who works for NASA actually sent me a Spirit mission patch! Poor Spirit… sniff. Opportunity is still chugging along. I tune in once in a … Read More
Inspiration for a March for Life in London
This gives me the opportunity to link back to two interesting posts! First, remember the post HERE, linked to a post on Fr. Finigan’s blog, about the possibility of a March for Life in London? I received this from a … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Just Too Cool, Linking Back
Tagged ByzanTeens, March for Life
6 Comments
6 Comments
Books for singing the Passion during Holy Week in the Extraordinary Form
My friend Jeffrey Tucker – who just a few says ago found me a version of the Apostle’s Creed in Latin with chant notation for a project I was working on – has posted at Chant Cafe an entry about … Read More
Developments with wheat, celiac
I have written about hosts and wheat and celiac (here and here, etc.). For the consecration to be valid, the hosts must be made from wheat flour. Not wheat… not valid. This comes from e! Science News with my emphases … Read More
First fruits of Anglicanorum coetibus
At the site of the Ordinariate Portal there is a photo of one of the former Anglican Bishop saying his first Mass. He is, of course, now a Catholic priest. Fr. Andrew Burnham said Mass for the first time at … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Pope of Christian Unity
Tagged Anglican Ordinariate, Anglicanorum coetibus
7 Comments
7 Comments
Sunday Supper: guest spot
I haven’t posted any Sunday Supper entries for a while, for various reasons (none of which being “I forgot”). Today, however, I want to bring to your attention a great idea I saw in the “Power Player of the Week” … Read More
Dotting your i’s
This is one of those things that makes you glad you are American. I have seen Script Ohio a couple times, though many many years ago. I thought then it was one of the spiffiest things I had ever seen. … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged marching band, Ohio State, Script Ohio, sousaphone
43 Comments
43 Comments
Trappists make and donate a casket for the little girl killed in Tucson
Via BadgerCatholic on Twitter I learned from the blog Sub Tuum, of the Cistercian monks at the Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, that the Trappist’s of New Melleray in Iowa made and donated a casket for little Christina … Read More
CasaSanBruno on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Ubi caritas…. So much mercy since 2013.”
