Category Archives: Just Too Cool

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

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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

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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

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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

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31 December: St. Melania the Younger

Happy Feast of St. Melania the Younger. St. Melania was a Roman saint, and “Desert Mother” who died in Jerusalem on this day in 439. She is the grandaughter of St. Melania the Elder. Melania married young.  After their children … Read More

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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

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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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St. Barbara, patron saint of artillery

At Marine Times I saw a fun piece about St. Barbara, who happens to be the patron saint of artilleries.  My emphases and comments. How a Roman-era Rapunzel became the patron saint of artillery On December 4, artillery units around the world … Read More

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Happy 15th Birthday, Blog!

On 8 December 2005, I posted this photo.  This blog project began. Today is the 15th anniversary of this blog. This photo was a shot from my apartment window in Rome on the evening of the day Pope Benedict was … Read More

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SPECIAL YEAR OF ST. JOSEPH!

On the 150th anniversary of Bl. Pope Pius IX’s proclamation of St. Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church, a special “Year of St. Joseph” has been declared from today to 8 December 2021. The Apostolic Penitentiary has yet to … Read More

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