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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
On a painfully hopeful day, consolation arrives – new icon of Our Lady, Queen of the Clergy
It has been a painful and hopeful day. Hopefully painful, or painfully hopeful, I can’t decide. The needle drifted a to the later as I opened my mail. First, it is REALLY supposed to be MONDAY in the OCTAVE of … Read More
Great concelebration photos during Chartres Pentecost Pilgrimage
During my last Rome visit I posted a photo of real concelebration: three priests at the same time saying their Masses at three altars in the nave of a Roman church. Today I found a great series of pics at Messa … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests
Tagged Chartres, concelebration
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Your Pentecost Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point made in the Holy Mass you heard to fulfill your Pentecost Sunday obligation? Let us know. I spoke about the ongoing role of the sacrament of confirmation in Christian life. There were a couple things … Read More
“Why should I send somebody in my place to be killed?”
At the site of the Knights of Columbus (bad choice about the uniforms, men, very) magazine, Columbus, there is a seriously moving account of D-Day and the storming of the beaches of Normandy. HERE A sample… […] Then the coxswain … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity, Si vis pacem para bellum!
Tagged D-Day, John 15:13
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NCRegister about D-Day Catholic chaplains
It’s the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. The National Catholic Register has an article about Catholic chaplains in the conflict. The whole article is great. Here, however, is an interesting bit about a priest: […] Among the massive carnage of D-Day, … Read More
75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Rome – 4 June 1944
The 75th Anniversary of D-Day is 6 June. Today, however, is 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Rome. In the following video, you can see among other things the invasion of Anzio, just below the Castelli Romani across the plain … Read More
JUST TOO COOL: Lewis Chessman found!
Once upon a time I was an avid chess player. I was never into fancy boards and pieces, but I do appreciate fine work. But even if you aren’t especially interested in chess itself, this is a story for your … Read More
A Must Read. Important post at the UK’s @CatholicHerald today.
There’s an important post at the UK’s Catholic Herald today. It has to do with the HERE I’m always going on about how, for success, every initiative we undertake in the Church has to start in and go back to … Read More
10 Great Meals In Literature
A friend – quite the eclectic reader – sent an interesting piece from The Telegraph of a few years back. 10 Great Meals In Literature Wow. Great idea. How did the selector do? Let’s see. 1) Mad Hatters Tea … Read More
Anniversary of a turning point in Christian history
Precisely in this time of year, it is the anniversary of the Great Siege of Malta, by the invading infidel Muslim under Suliman, called by some “the Magnificent”. This was a key moment in Western history, given the strategic importance … Read More
Uncle Mike on “Sometimes the scalpel is the honey.” Wherein Fr. Z rants about “the parable of the wheat and tares”.: “Another thought: sometimes the only one who can successfully use the scalpel on us is ourself. Because ultimately, it is…”
