Thursday, April 30, 2009

Welcome to the free market my friends

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Melancholicus rather likes the nickname, namely The Suppository , coined by Mulier Fortis for that formerly Catholic journal The Tablet . H...
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The BBC on the first hundred days

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Yesterday marked the 100th day in office of US President Barack Hussein Obama. The celebration of this sacred festival was reported in a var...
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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...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

The 'Mass presenter'

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Driving back to Dublin one recent Sunday evening, I chanced to pass through the place where I grew up, a coastal town in north county Wicklo...
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Thursday, April 09, 2009

Hope

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Melancholicus has spent much of Holy Thursday reading (or rather re-reading) the late Archbishop’s book Open Letter to Confused Catholics . ...
Thursday, April 02, 2009

Where we're at

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The past month’s inactivity on Infelix Ego may have given the impression that Melancholicus has given up blogging for Lent. He hasn’t. He h...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Shrove Tuesday

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This is the traditional name given to the day preceding Ash Wednesday. The Americans call it Fat Tuesday , owing, I guess, to the practice o...

Smasher R.I.P.

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Alas, the Irish blogosphere is a sadder, colder, more joyless place than it was until lately. For the incomparable Smasher has fared forth,...

Thank you Therese!

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Melancholicus couldn’t believe his eyes. His sitemeter has gone haywire with activity. He is not normally given to boasting about stats sinc...
Monday, February 23, 2009

It's forbidden, you know

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This is apposite, as Lent is all but upon us. It is customary in not a few Amchurch parishes to replace the normal contents of holy water fo...

The liturgical colour of Lent: not violet, but green!

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The C of E , that formerly venerable institution of English culture and religion which has given us such delights as choral evensong and th...

That was not my Mass

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So says Elena Curti , deputy editrix of The Tablet , a journal which (like so many other things in the recent life of the Church) was once a...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The Bloggers' Choice Awards

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It’s that time of year again. Although Melancholicus was sufficiently vain as to solicit nomination from another blogger, he was at least no...
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Sodality of Our Lady retreat

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As he remarked in this post last December, Melancholicus feels the need for a retreat in order to clear away the cobwebs and let some sunli...
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Birthday greetings

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Melancholicus received this notice by e-mail, and wishes to extend his congratulations to Fr. Ó Fionnagáin (not that he reads Infelix Ego , ...

Iggy's rant - the riposte

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Alas for Iggy! It does not look as though the masses are mobilizing behind him; his brother priests certainly aren’t. This letter from a Gal...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

'Iggy' gets in on the act

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A ‘concelebrated Mass’ on Easter Sunday 2006. Photo courtesy of the Church of Ireland Gazette . Remember this? Three years ago an Augustinia...

Benedict the Ordinary

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From the blog of Fr. Ray Blake : “The change from the age of John Paul “the Great” to that of Benedict, described by one French journalist a...

John Paul II and Maciel

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This post is not a diatribe against the late pontiff, but an attempt to understand the consistently peculiar response to allegations of cler...
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Anti-semitism and the BBC

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Roger Bolton, of BBC Radio 4’s Sunday fame, is somewhat nonplussed by the claims of the UK parliamentary committee for anti-semitism that i...
Friday, February 13, 2009

The day that's in it

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Today is Friday 13th. As to why this day should be considered unlucky, Melancholicus heard an explanation from a friend of his some years ag...

The idolisation of murderers

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It’s happening again. Lamp-posts in Dublin city are once again festooned with images of the blood-stained terrorist Ernesto Guevara, posted ...
Monday, February 09, 2009

But the penny still hasn't dropped

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The newsletter from the parish on the north side of Dublin city where Melancholicus spends his working week has again popped through his let...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Oremus pro pontifice nostro Benedicto

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As Our Blessed Lady said to the three children to whom she appeared at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, “Pray, pray very much for the Holy Father,...
Sunday, February 01, 2009

The feast of St. Brigid

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Today, February 1st, is the feast of St. Brigid , one of the three patron saints of Ireland — the other two being Patrick (March 17th) and C...
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