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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
‘Behind the door was a painting that the owners did not know about.’
For your Just Too Cool file. So, you want to fix a leak in your roof. You go upstairs and discover what might be a long-lost 400 year old painting by Michelangelo Merisi, Caravaggio, worth about $140 million. The subject … Read More
“The oldest church in the English speaking world”
It is great to see that His Hermeneuticalness is posting a bit more these days after the great health scare. Fr. Finigan visited the oldest church in the English speaking world. Very cool. The Church used by Queen Bertha and … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Mail from priests
Tagged Fr. Tim Finigan, St. Augustine of Canterbury
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1 Comment
Buona Pasquetta!
It is Easter Monday. In Rome and all over Italy, everything is pretty much closed up for what they call “Pasquetta” (Little Easter) and also “Lunedì dell’Angelo” (Angel Monday), which calls to mind the exchange between the angel and the … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Octave of Easter, Pasquetta, Victimae paschali laudes
2 Comments
2 Comments
Thorn of the Crown bleeds with Good Friday and Annunciation fall together
God is great. Apropos my post about Lady Day and Good Friday falling together, which won’t happen again for over a hundred years. From CNS: Andria, Italy, Mar 25, 2016 / 06:38 pm (CNA).- A single thorn held to have … Read More
National Catholic Prayer Breakfast confirms a big guest speaker in addition to Card. Sarah!
This year on 17 May the 12th National Catholic Prayer Breakfast will be held in Washington DC. The keynote speaker is the great Robert Card. Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship. A special guest speaker has also been … Read More
7 December 1941: The Pacific Clipper makes a dangerous escape!
Fascinating! This would make a great movie.
VERY COOL: St. Michael the Archangel flies again!
For years the famous Mont-Saint-Michel off the coast of France has been undergoing a lot of work. Le Figaro has a story about the dismounting of the gilded statue of St. Michael from the pinnacle of the island town, from it’s monastic … Read More
A new ride home from Bugatti
The new Bugatti has been revealed. From CNN: Bugatti Chiron: Meet the next ‘world’s fastest supercar’ [In Greek mythology Chiron was a centaur with a gift for healing. He eventually gave up immortality and was placed by the gods in … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool
Tagged Bugatti, Bugatti Chiron, Bugatti Veyron, Michael O'Brien, O'b
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14 Comments
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