Tuesday, December 23, 2008

O Emmanuel

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The last of the O Antiphons is sung at vespers this evening, for tomorrow’s vespers will be the first of the Nativity: O EMMANUEL, Rex et Le...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

Tagged

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Another milestone in the annals of Infelix Ego , for today Melancholicus has been tagged, and that for the very first time. The rules of thi...

O Rex Gentium

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This evening’s vespers sees the chanting of the penultimate O Antiphon: O REX GENTIUM, et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis u...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

O Oriens

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The fifth of the Great O Antiphons will be sung at vespers this evening. The fourth Sunday of Advent has no proper Magnificat antiphon at ei...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008

O Clavis David

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The fourth of the Great O Antiphons will be sung at vespers this evening: O CLAVIS David, et sceptrum domus Israel: qui aperis, et nemo clau...
Friday, December 19, 2008

O Radix Jesse

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The third of the Great O Antiphons will be sung at vespers this evening: O RADIX JESSE, qui stas in signum populorum, super quem continebunt...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

O Adonai

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The second of the Great O Antiphons will be sung at vespers this evening: O ADONAI, et Dux domus Israel, qui Moysi in igne flammae rubi appa...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

O Sapientia

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On 17 December, which is today, the Church enters upon the second and more solemn half of her Advent observance. The countdown to the appear...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

What the devil...?

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In September last Melancholicus installed on Infelix Ego a device called NeoCounter . This device is one of many handy tools that measure a...

The things one sees on the highway

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Yesterday evening, after checking on his students in the exam hall at the RDS, Melancholicus was driving through Ballsbridge on his way back...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

Christmas stamps 2008

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Last year Melancholicus was struck with wonderment at the fact that, even in this brave new age of cultural ‘sensitivity’, An Post was so ...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Lisbon take two

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Isn’t democracy beautiful? Isn’t it wonderful when the people at large have the chance to determine their own future instead of having a cad...
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Friday, December 05, 2008

In memoriam A.H.M., part the third

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Melancholicus has now finished reading Martyr of Ritualism , and is still infused with an after-glow of awe at the extraordinary life and la...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

The clarity of his teaching makes me glad to be a Dubliner...

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... and even gladder to be a Catholic. Not. This story courtesy of Novus Ordo Catholic World News , and is Melancholicus’ first hosting of a...
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Perfectionism

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Melancholicus is a perfectionist. He is a perfectionist at least when it comes to himself; it takes him an unseemly length of time to finish...

A.H.M. reditus

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Melancholicus is still racing through Martyr of Ritualism . He is right near the end of it now. In his declining years, in the autumn of 188...
Tuesday, December 02, 2008

In Memoriam A.H.M.

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At present Melancholicus is reading a book. This used to happen more regularly than it does at present owing to his unfortunate discovery la...

Ubi es, Domine?

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Melancholicus is feeling rather well this Tuesday morning of the first week of Advent, notwithstanding his ugly encounter yesterday with the...
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...
Monday, November 17, 2008

The hypocrites

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This adorable little boy, an innocent just 17 months old, died in north London in August 2007 after horrendous abuse amounting to torture in...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The German side

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German soldiers of the Great War pay their last respects to a fallen comrade German cemetary on the Somme at Fricourt This story from today...
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Marshal Foch on the Irish soldiers of the Great War

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PARIS, FRIDAY, Nov. 9th, 1928 “THE Heroic Dead of Ireland have every right to the homage of the living for they proved in some of the heavie...

Remembrance

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The eleventh hour of this eleventh day of the eleventh month saw the 90th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Great War pass by. For...