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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
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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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
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Various prayers or “Orationes diversae” in the traditional Missale Romanum
I added the orations “For enemies.” I wrote about those orations in three posts, the first of which is HERE. I had a question in email about something I did yesterday for the live-streamed Mass at Noon. It was a … Read More
ISS NEWS: 4 at once!
This is pretty cool. Four spaceships, the @SpaceX #CrewDragon and three @Roscosmos spaceships, are docked at the station after the departure of the SpaceX #CargoDragon today. More… https://t.co/Hl3lsvCegM pic.twitter.com/5l2l1KGV32 — International Space Station (@Space_Station) January 13, 2021
Fr. Z kudos for a great idea about abandoned churches
Everyone… look at this great idea! Concept: a religious order whose charism is breaking, urbex-style, into abandoned churches and organizing a pop-up Solemn High Mass there, complete with every liturgical detail and sparing no expense, ennobling and reconsecrating the sacred … Read More
JUST TOO COOL: An intriguing Biblical archeology find
A polymath friend of mine presently deployed overseas send the most interesting links. Today he clued me in on this from Live Science: Dance floor where John the Baptist was condemned to death discovered, archaeologist says Archaeologists claim that they … Read More
In this, I am decidedly pro Trans!
Here are tidings of great joy. In this, I am decidedly pro-trans. I was reminded that the Transalpine Redemptorists of Papa Stronsay, received an invitation to establish a monastery in the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings. They are in Montana now … Read More
Two good stories: Blue Angels and Tiny Houses
A couple of good notes. First, from the Navy Times I read that the Blue Angels are up in the air again in their new F-18 Super Hornets. New in 2021: Blue Angels to start flying F/A-18 Super Hornets […] The … Read More
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