Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Water discovered to be wet, and other extraordinary news

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Although Melancholicus has not posted in over a year and doubted he would do so again, he is just so exercised by the smug hypocrisy of Cat...
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Friday, February 05, 2010

Buan

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The toy manufacturer Hasbro has launched a Ouija board, packaged in a cutesy pink box which serves to make the thing look innocent and har...
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Thursday, February 04, 2010

The motion for debate

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That this house believes Vatican II was the Catholic Church’s Haiti. Ideas?
Friday, January 22, 2010

Conciliar renewal a tremendous success in Holland

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Not. Because from where Melancholicus stands, he can see only devastation. Perhaps the feverish apostles of aggiornamento will cont...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

How the election result went down in Berlin

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Melancholicus is not normally given to much of an interest in American politics, but now that he lives in the U.S. he may as well bestir him...

When the shepherd becomes a wolf...

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...the flock has a right to defend itself. Actually, according to Dom Prosper Gueranger, that right is more of a duty . Gueranger was referr...
Monday, January 18, 2010

The ranks are thinning

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Each passing year reduces the roll of notoriety still further, for which we give thanks unto almighty God. We shall never be entirely free f...

Papabile?

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Someone (preferably a figure of authority in the Congregation for Divine Worship) should inform this man that yellow is not a liturgical col...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Answered prayers

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The Old Mass comes to Bremerton... sort of. Recovering from his vexation at the awfulness of the ars celebrandi of this morning’s parish Ma...

The Bug

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The Bugnini died in 1982, and—happily for those of us who seek some measure of beauty and solemnity in public worship—is still dead. Long m...

An Ode

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One would rather— à la Keats—expound on a Grecian urn, but the subject of the present composition is Bugnini’s liturgy. So here goes: [clea...

Ordinary Time

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So, this is it. The dreaded green season. Ordinary Time TM has returned to the parish of St. Charles Borromeo. Christmastide and Epiphanyti...

An heretical thought

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...passed through Melancholicus’ mind this morning, him having been dragged from his bed to attend 8am Mass on a cold and rainy morning, and...
Monday, January 11, 2010

New year, new title, new look

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Sunrise. The winter is past... sort of. The dawn is chilly, with lingering traces of night, but it is dawn nonetheless. The LORD God is stil...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

What the people really, really want

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Melancholicus was at Holy Cross parish , Tacoma, for Sunday Mass today. The pastor, Fr. John Renggli, announced to the congregation that the...
Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Striking suicide bombers

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Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to...
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Monday, December 07, 2009

Prayers for a departed soul

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In your charity, gentle reader, please offer a prayer for the soul of my grandmother, Mrs. Kathleen (Mai) Brady, 19.v.1911—7.xii.1999. She d...

Reflections on the feast of St. Ambrose

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Today is the feast of this courageous and holy saint who withstood a bloodstained Roman Emperor ( Theodosius ) by barring the latter from hi...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

Links!

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As Melancholicus has recommenced blogging, he kindly requests his brethren (and sustren) who have removed their links to Infelix Ego owing ...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Expect further growth in the Church of Ireland

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Melancholicus is sure that their Graces Harper and Neill (Church of Ireland archbishops of Armagh and Dublin respectively) are not given to ...

Litany for the Church

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Melancholicus was browsing recently through Vercillo’s Catholic book and gift shop in Tacoma, and came away with a bunch of holy cards, one ...

The world's newest sovereign state

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Melancholicus fled his Irish homeland just in time, for as from yesterday, 1 December 2009, the Republic of Ireland no longer exists—at leas...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

The Feast of St. Andrew

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A day late perhaps, but better late than never. With grateful thanks to St. Andrew for favours received. Melancholicus is certainly in much...

The Novus Ordo at 40

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In ancient days, the Greeks considered the age of forty to be the pinnacle of a man’s prowess and achievement. During the Golden Age of Athe...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Heritage Missal

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Melancholicus satisfied his first Sunday obligation of the new liturgical year at the parish of St. Charles Borromeo in Tacoma, Washington....
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