I am an even older fart, and I TAUGHT cursive. The only “cursive” here is the angry scrawl of someone who’d prefer to be cursing.

Look, for example, at the word immediately after HOLY MONTH. The closest correct cursive letters to fit the scrawl are:

“itreit”.

It’s only by context, and allowing for the angry misplacement of the tittle, that we can read it as “that.”