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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
NEW MUSIC DISC from St Paul’s Boys Choir in Harvard Square
I have posted in the past about wonderful music CDs by the St. Paul’s Boys Choir in Harvard Square. If you don’t have their Christmas disc, you are in for a treat. The choir has a new recording! Here is … Read More
Feedback that gets to me
Occasionally I get feedback that really helps. Today I received this: Wow. This, friends, gets to me. The token she mentions is something from my wish list, a recording of The Passion of Saint Thomas More by composer Garrett Fisher. … Read More
What a contrast to the tensions over Confederate statues!
Honor! I picked this up from a tweet by a friend: Well this story makes an interesting contrast to the tearing down of #ConfederateStatues. https://t.co/TRSTs56dMO — Samuel J. Howard (@Jahaza) August 15, 2017 In a nutshell: A WWII Marine vet … Read More
Posted in I'm just askin'..., Just Too Cool, Pò sì jiù, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged honor, WWII
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VIDEO: Pius XII declaring the Dogma of the Assumption
The fabled pastor of my home parish, the late Msgr. Richard Schuler told stories about being in Rome when Ven. Pius XII infallibly declared the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin to be a dogma of the Faith. He was present … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Solitary Boast
Tagged Assumption, dogma, Pius XII
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IN THE WILD: “Prayer For Vocations” spotted
I had a great text cross-country SMS from a colleague in the TMSM this morning at a little church in Shell Lake, WI. Here is a poster at the parish… First, I am delighted that they found – note the … Read More
BRICK BY BRICK in Montana! Priests making the TLM HAPPEN!
This is for your Brick By Brick file. Had I known about this, I might have attended! I spent a lot of time during my young summers between Billings and Greybull in N. Wyoming. From a reader… Have you heard … Read More
Challenge Coin Update
I have received several emails from priests who have upcoming Jubilees as well as from men who will soon be ordained. They, too, want to have challenge coins made as I did for my 25th. They wanted to know where/how I … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z sends Michael Sean Winters a “Combat Rosary”
UPDATE: Winters responded! HERE ___ ORIGINALLY Published on: Jul 31, 2017: The other day Michael Sean Winters, the juggernaut writer for the Fishwrap, attacked you readers here. HERE He did so, because one of you asked me about the Most Holy Rosary as a … Read More
200 years ago: Jane Austen – RIP: a date of “note”
200 hundred years ago today, one of the great writers of the 19th c. died. Jane Austen. I read today that the UK unveiled a new £10 note, printed on polymer, at Winchester Cathedral where the novelist is buried. A … Read More
Have you ever heard of, or heard from, a “Notation Knife”?
Enjoy this fascinating video! Biretta tip to The Catholic Thing. This is about a “notation knife”, which could be called a Benediction or Blessing Knife. At the end, they have worked out parts to match the notation and have a little group … Read More
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