Showing posts with label liturgical abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liturgical abuse. Show all posts
Sunday, January 17, 2010

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...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

The 'Mass presenter', part the second

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A fortnight ago Melancholicus dreamed a ‘liturgical’ dream—a nightmare actually—the particulars of which are described in the post immediate...
Monday, December 01, 2008

Missa Bizarra

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I blame Paul VI. It’s all his fault. The words echo in my head still; should’ve gone to Harrington Street ... should’ve gone to Harrington S...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

Dead in his tracks

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The feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross 17th Sunday after Trinity Melancholicus really, really wanted to go to St. Bartholomew’s this ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

How many liturgists does it take... ?

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Never before in ecclesiastical history has there been so much verbal diarrhoea on the subject of liturgy than in the forty-five years since ...
Monday, July 07, 2008

Accidents and the holy eucharist

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Sometimes they happen. It’s a fallen world. Melancholicus has read of instances of hosts being found, unaccountably, on the floors of church...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

O, horrible! O, horrible! O, most horrible!

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Further to my post on the forthcoming Eucharistic Congress in Dublin below . We—the Catholic faithful of this island of Ireland—have at leas...
Monday, November 12, 2007

The times, they are definitely a-changin'!

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From Catholic World News : Baltimore, Nov. 9, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Baltimore's Archbishop Edwin O'Brien has removed a pastor who invi...