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Societas Melancholicus
This group is a place for those who are identified as melancholics, by Scholastic definition and by a personal examination of conscience. It is dedicated to balancing the extreme traits of Melancholia with Jesus Christ, the Blessed Lord, who helps all in need, in love for the Father.
Temperare Melancholicus is an order of the human person whereby a soul is intensely focused on personal humiliation. The melancholic seeks isolation, whether consciously or unconsciously, and prefers lonesome solitude on the whole. Small, dark rooms with a book or a music player (with earphones, of course, so no one can hear what we're listening to, in case it's too silly!) are our preferred places. This loneliness of the soul often gives in to artistic, literary, and theological groundbreaking on the part of the melancholic; on the other hand, sorrow at meeting other people can be very disordered in the Christian life.
We are here to balance the bad effects, in Christ, and to exaggerate the good, silent, contemplative, artistic, and theological possibilities of this 'alignment'. Thank St. Thomas Aquinas for revealing this to us, so we may better ourselves with the Holy Trinity!
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Societas Melancholicus
This group is a place for those who are identified as melancholics, by Scholastic definition and by a personal examination of conscience. It is dedicated to balancing the extreme traits of Melancholia with Jesus Christ, the Blessed Lord, who helps all in need, in love for the Father.
Temperare Melancholicus is an order of the human person whereby a soul is intensely focused on personal humiliation. The melancholic seeks isolation, whether consciously or unconsciously, and prefers lonesome solitude on the whole. Small, dark rooms with a book or a music player (with earphones, of course, so no one can hear what we're listening to, in case it's too silly!) are our preferred places. This loneliness of the soul often gives in to artistic, literary, and theological groundbreaking on the part of the melancholic; on the other hand, sorrow at meeting other people can be very disordered in the Christian life.
We are here to balance the bad effects, in Christ, and to exaggerate the good, silent, contemplative, artistic, and theological possibilities of this 'alignment'. Thank St. Thomas Aquinas for revealing this to us, so we may better ourselves with the Holy Trinity!