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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
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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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!
The ULTIMATE GIFT for a priest revisited: Portable altar from St. Joseph’s Apprentice
I have written before about the ULTIMATE gift for a priest: the marvelous portable altars by St. Joseph’s Apprentice. In 2014 HERE and in 2015 HERE With each iteration, these altars are being perfected. He has taken some of my past suggestions … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z becomes a fan of the Samoan Rugby Team
I was sent this video today, though it is from last year. This is from the Church of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, where the great PP is my friend Fr. Ray Blake. Looks like an ad orientem altar, doesn’t … Read More
Mike Piazza – Baseball Hall of Fame Speech: “…the greatest gift a mother could give a child, the gift of my Catholic Faith.”
Famed-catholic Mike Piazza (AVG .308 HR427 RBI1335 OB% .377 Total Bases 3768 Slugging % .545) was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame today. During his understandably emotional speech he thanked his mother for… “…the greatest gift a … Read More
4 July – JUNO!
From Space.com: NASA’s Juno spacecraft is scheduled to enter into orbit around JupiterMonday night (July 4), ending its nearly five-year trek to the solar system’s biggest planet. The key event Monday is a 35-minute engine burn at 11:18 p.m. EDT … Read More
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