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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
CQ CQ CQ: #ZedNet – Leo XIV pays a visit
I’ve been wanting to revive Zednet. Alas, I cannot do it alone. I don’t have possession of the components or the knowhow. Maybe, someday soon we can get it going again. Meanwhile, Pope Leo XIV went to the transmission center … Read More
VIDEO – Unboxing the newly reprinted Pre-55 Missal from the Benedictines of Norcia
I unbox – open the package – of the newly reprinted Pre-55 Missal from the Benedictines of Norcia which just arrived. The monks forewarned that they don’t have many at the time I made this video. They will eventually have … Read More
Concerning the Pope’s… Popes’… pectoral Cross
This is a new Cross…
ROME 13 May 609 – Exorcism, screaming demons, terrified people fainting – Dedication of the Pantheon as a church
Dear readers, this is the sort of thing that Popes do! They fight against the forces of Hell and they work for the salvation of souls. When the ancient obelisk that was in the Circus of Caligula off to the … Read More
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Tagged Boniface IV, exorcism, Pantheon
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Starlink… thoughts
I’m starting to see IP addresses in comments via “starlink”. I don’t usually pay attention to them. “starklink” got my attention. I can’t tell much about anything from those IPs, but the make me wonder. Anyone here using Starlink who … Read More
The Benedictine nuns of Gower Abbey sing the Tenebrae Responses… disc and digital download!
The wonderful nuns of Gower Abbey, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, have a disc and digital download: Tenebrae at Ephesus US HERE – UK HERE These are the RESPONSORIES of Tenebrae for all three days of the Triduum. They are, arguably, … Read More
Pres. Trump’s Message on Holy Week, 2025
This has been out a day. Since we are in Holy Week, it seems appropriate to post it. I note in particular the references to the Triduum and “Mass of the Lord’s Supper” and Vigil. This is a decidedly Catholic … Read More
CNA: GREAT piece about the Archconfraternity at The Parish™ in Rome and the custom of washing the feet of pilgrims
Check out this GREAT piece at CNA. HERE From washing feet to a place to sleep: How Rome is welcoming jubilee pilgrims This piece describes how the Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims and Convalescents, founded by … Read More
The fool says in his heart ‘There is no God.'”
From something I spotted in a tweet, I did some digging to find the source. This is from a Psalter in the Getty Museum. DESCRIPTION: An enthroned man wearing a fool’s cap illustrates the opening verse of Psalm 52-“The fool … Read More
24 March – Feast of St. Gabriel, Archangel – images – EXPANDED
Last year I posted some images of the Announcing Archangel St. Gabriel, whose feast day it is in the Vetus Ordo, appropriate in the presence of tomorrow’s Annunciate, the Feast of the Annunciation. NB: The Feast of the Annunciation, as … Read More
OrdainedButStillbeingFormedDiakonos on “Sometimes the scalpel is the honey.” Wherein Fr. Z rants about “the parable of the wheat and tares”.: “I’m finally reading the Divine Comedy. I’m through the Inferno and halfway in the Purgatorio. I often wonder if someone…”
