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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
Something fun for the consistory: The Cardinal… locations
Here is something fun for dire times. In honor of the consistory, I will share something sent to me by a priest friend, Fr. Robert Guessetto, OSA, in Rome. Most of you know, I am sure, the Otto Preminger movie … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare
Tagged filming locations, movie, Otto Preminger, The Cardinal
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25 years ago, from 4 billion miles away… a glimpse of your planet
From APOD comes this marvelous image: Explanation: On another Valentine’s Day 25 years ago, cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back one last time to make this first ever Solar System family portrait. The … Read More
MADISON, WI – 2 Feb – CANDLEMAS – Pontifical Mass at the Throne
On 2 February – Candlemas – in Madison, WI, His Excellency Most Rev. Bishop Robert C. Morlino (the Extraordinary Ordinary) will celebrate a Pontifical Mass at the Throne. The Mass will begin at 7 pm at the Bishop O’Connor Center. … Read More
Brick by Brick: Another parish implements Summorum Pontificum. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
For your Brick by Brick file. A reader sent me a link to a story in the St. Louis Review (a publication of the Archdiocese of St. Louis) about a parish which as started up a Traditional Latin Mass. ‘Mysterium tremendum’ … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, ACTION ITEM!, Be The Maquis, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, Si vis pacem para bellum!, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
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More from the mighty pen of Daniel Mitsui
From time to time I post about art from Daniel Mitusi, the talented Catholic artist who has worked under the inspiration of the Medieval period as well as Japanese prints. He gets proper inculturation. You may recall that his little … Read More
“Namore of this, for Goddes dignitee … Thy drasty riming is nat worth a toord!”
All of us who are interested in language are, at some point, fully engaged with Chaucer. I like to stay engaged with Chaucer even today through his blog (HERE)… but I digress. I read today a piece at the UK’s … Read More
Undeveloped photos from WWII found
One of you readers sent me a link to a great story at the Daily Mail about a man who bought 31 rolls of undeveloped film from the WWII era at an auction. Along with them were moving letters written … Read More
ROME DAY 6: Pontifical Mass with Card. Burke
Today we had a Pontifical Mass at the faldstool celebrated by His Eminence Raymond Leo Card. Burke. There was a visiting choir from Ireland for the music. The Mass was in the Basilica of San Nicola in carcere, which is … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Card. Burke, San Nicola in carcere
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22 Jan: Pontifical Mass (TLM) after March for Life!
On Thursday, 22 January in Washington DC, at 4:00 PM, after the March For Life, there will be a Pontifical Mass at the Faldstool celebrated by His Excellency Most Reverend Thomas John Paprocki, Bishop of Springfield in Illinois. Mass is … Read More
