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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
Thoughts about the Feast of the Dedication of a Church: “It is not the same thing to pray in private, or to pray in the sacred sanctuary and to take part in the rites of Catholic Liturgy.”
Today at Mass for this Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica I was struck by the beauty of the orations and imagery. First, there was the collect, which I mention elsewhere. The first reading is from the Book … Read More
Celebrating Palestrina at at Sacred Heart Church in Grand Rapids, MI in 2025 – world famous choirs
Any number of parishes could do something like this. Here is a parish that has done something! My friends at Sacred Heart in Grand Rapids, MI had a wonderful idea which they have executed expertly. They are celebrating in 5th … Read More
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23 October 2023 – The altar painting of the Holy Trinity by Guido Reni taken down for an exposition.
23 October 2023 – The altar painting of the Holy Trinity at Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome by Guido Reni is taken down for an exposition.
This has the earmarks of the beginning of a great SCI-FI piece…
This has the earmarks of the beginning of a great SCI-FI piece… Voyager 1, we read you! ? A historic first, NASA’s Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) arrayed all six antennas to receive data from @NASAVoyager earlier this year. … Read More
The number of young women wearing chapel veils or mantillas in church is increasing. Wherein Fr. Z rants… and teaches… and rants
At The Free Press there is a piece about the fact of the increase in the number of young women wear chapel veils or mantillas in church. I’d be interested in your thoughts on the article and on the topic … Read More
The Shroud: dating and the image with AI
As I catch up with the news, it seems that another dating technique has been used on the Shroud of Turin. X-Ray scattering … whatever that is… was used to examine the cellulose patterns of the fabric to see how … Read More
REMINDER: USA – Tour with a magnificent relic, the arm of the Apostle St. Jude
Just a reminder that, right now, there is a tour around these USA with a magnificent relic, the arm of the Apostle St. Jude, widely known as the patron of impossible causes. There is a web site with a description … Read More
VIDEO: 1950 – Pius XII infallible proclamation of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
In 1950 my late pastor, Msgr. Schuler, was in Rome on a Fulbright working on the manuscripts of Giovanni Maria Nanino, the successor of Palestrina for the Sistine Chapel. He had great stories about being a priest in Rome in … Read More
VIDEO: Oxford Emeritus Professor of Mathematics John Lennox gave a public lecture about belief in God
Oxford Emeritus Professor of Mathematics John Lennox is a Christian apologist. He gave a talk about belief in God in a public lecture at Oxford Union.
29 July 1954: Fellowship of the Ring is published. The ‘Lord of the Rings’ changed my life.
70 years ago on 29 July 1954: The Fellowship of the Ring is published. The first part of J.R.R. #Tolkien‘s The Lord of Rings, it tells of Frodo Baggins leaving the Shire on a quest to destroy the One Ring. … Read More
PatS on Remember, it’s not just that they don’t like the rites, they don’t like the people who like the rites.: “I disagree – I say it’s both. They don’t like the Traditional Rites (some of them are not even Catholic)…”
