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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
PROXIMA b!
In a story via the ESO and APOD I have read about PROXIMA b That cool sounding name is the newly spotted planet orbiting the very closest star to your planet other than your yellow sun. Proxima Centauri can’t be … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Michael, Proxima b, Proxima Centauri, Voyage to Alpha Centauri
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The USA Solar Eclipse of 2017 – signs in the heavens
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars…. Luke 21:25. At NASA I see that, one year from today, 21 August 2017, the shadow of your planet’s moon, in a great total … Read More
New art from Daniel Mitsui: The Mass of St Gregory
The “Mass of Saint Gregory” is a common subject of art across many centuries, beginning in mid-14th c, though the subject matter dates back to the 8th c with variations. The essentials are these: Pope Gregory I, “the Great” (+604) … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged Daniel Mitsui, Mass of St Gregory, transubstantiation
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They’re here! The Tears of St. Lawrence
UPDATE 12 August: Very cool. The view of the meteor shower from above, on the ISS! UPDATE 11 August: From SpaceWeather: PERSEID METEOR OUTBURST–TONIGHT! Earth is approaching a thicket of debris from comet Swift-Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. When … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Perseid Meteor Shower, Tears of St. Lawrence
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JUST TOO COOL: Feast of the Transfiguration – special blessing of grapes
Go buy some grapes and take them to the priest for the Feast of the Transfiguration (tomorrow, 6 August), with a page from the Rituale Romanum (go to p. 345 – Benedictio uvarum), or cut and paste the English text … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Just Too Cool
Tagged blessings, grapes, Rituale Romanum, Transfiguration
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A new priest hat to covet
I could kick myself for not getting a Spanish biretta when I was in Madrid. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. I guess I’ll have to go back. That said, I spotted a new priest hat to covet. Here is an image … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests
Tagged biretta, jijin
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17 Comments
5 August: Dedication of St. Mary Major – Our Lady of the Snows
Pope Liberius (352-366) was Bishop of Rome in difficult times. In 350 Constans was assassinated and Constantius became the sole Emperor by defeating Magnentius. Some bishops in the East who opposed St. Athanasius in Egypt appealed to Liberius to get … Read More
GREEN-BLOODED BOBBLEHEAD
I picked this up from SpaceWeather while looking at news about your planet’s Sun gobbling up a dying comet. GREEN-BLOODED BOBBLEHEAD: The 50th Anniversary of Star Trek is now. To celebrate (and to support their crowdfunded research program) the students of Earth … Read More
A joyous young woman enters Carmel
This is pretty cool. A friend alerted me to this video of a young woman entering a Carmel. More HERE. You young women out there, think about it. I don’t think that God is calling fewer women per capita … Read More
Wherein Card. Burke greets YOU, the readers of Fr. Z’s Blog
Here is something from Card. Burke for all of you out there!
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