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Category Archives: Look! Up in the sky!
16 July 1969 – LIFTOFF!
16 July 1969 – 55 years ago Before implementation of the Novus Ordo, btw, although changes were underway.
So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!
A while back in 2023, Voyager 1, which set out in 1977 to fly by the outer planets and then head off into the void, stopped sending usable data. I did a News Of The Church podcast about that. HERE … Read More
Good Friday 3 April AD 33? – Eclipses as Christ died on the Cross
This is definitely worth reposting. The fellow who made the video about the Star of Bethlehem (a compelling argument, I might add), also did some research about what happened in the heavens on Good Friday. Let’s break it down. Passover … Read More
A BIG CME IS COMING
From SpaceWeather. A BIG CME IS COMING: Two sunspots erupted at once on March 23rd, producing a powerful X1-class solar flare. A bright halo CME is now heading for Earth. Models suggest it could reach our planet during the early hours … Read More
Posted in Look! Up in the sky!, Semper Paratus, TEOTWAWKI, The Coming Storm
Tagged CME, Coronal Mass Ejection
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News of the Church 10 – 10 March 2024
The inaugural edition of this series is HERE, in which I explain a lot more. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which after the Civil War a former confederate officer earns a meager … Read More
Posted in Look! Up in the sky!, News of the Church, PODCAzT
Tagged News of the Church, podcast, PODCAzT
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DAILY ROME SHOT 943… umm… MOON SHOT
Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – UK HERE WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, etc.. At no extra cost, you provide help for which … Read More
Apollo 8 came in about the worst of all years, 1968. What a year.
A friend sent a link to The Federalist which has a piece about the passing of Astronaut Frank Borman of the legendary Apollo 8 Moon mission at 95. Their mission was to leave Earth’s orbit, go to the Moon, orbit ten times … Read More
Did God make the universe so huge in order to give us some idea of what “eternity” is?
It has been a long time since I’ve read St. Gregory of Nyssa, but when I saw this video in an x-tweet, something jumped to mind. If memory serves, Gregory described our experience of the Beatific Vision as a spiral. … Read More
“The sky is crying…” – The Vigil and the Tears of St. Lawrence
The sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street. Thanks to flaming comet dust moving at 60km per second. Today is the Vigil of St. Lawrence, in the older, traditional Roman calendar, replete with purple vestments. Before our … Read More
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Anneliese on ASK FATHER: “I have been looking for a retirement community close by a stable TLM. Do you have any clues on that?” Fr. Z asks help from the readership.: “The Oratory of Sts. Gregory and Augustine in Richmond Heights, MO. It’s a suburb of St Louis. Very safe. Very…”
