30.12.11

Index to the Proper of Saints - By Genre, Nation, and Time


Literature
Sainted Name, Nationality, Century
St. Moses, Mythmonger and Creator of Creation
Hebrew                                    BCE 15
St. Job, Saint of Saints                                                             Hebrew                                           14
St. David, Poet and King                                                          Hebrew                                           11
St. Solomon, Sage and King                                                    Hebrew                                           10
St. Isaiah of the Vatic Perfections                                           Hebrew                                             8
St. Homer, Primal Bard                                                          Greek                                                7
St. Sappho, Primal Lovebard                                                   Greek                                                6
St. Hairy Clitoris, Primal Philosopher                                     Greek                                                6
St. Aeschylus, Warrior and Playwright                                   Greek                                                5
St. Sophocles, Playwright                                                        Greek                                                5
St. Euripides, Humanist & Playwright                                     Greek                                                5
St. Tzu, Mirrorist and Sage                                                     Chinese                                             4
St. Play-Doh, Chief Philosopher                                              Greek                                                4
St. Tzu, Pomo Bandit                                                               Chinese                                             4
St. Publius, Mythmonger                                                        Roman                                       BCE 1
St. Paul, Zealot and Pragmatic Transcendentalist                 Roman                                         CE 1
St. John the Divine, God’s Beloved and Lover of Words         Hebrew                                             1
St. Augustine, Hippo of Bishops                                              Roman                                               4
St. Johann-Simone, Mystic and Martyr
German-French                               13
St. Alighieri of Beatrice                                                          Italian                                              13
St. Geoff, Chief Flatulator                                                       English                                             14
St. Thomas and the BCPs                                                        English                                             16
St. Eyquem, Essayist, Skeptic, Realist, Humanist, Stoic, Condemnatist
French            16
St. Saavedra, Cripple of Lepanto
and of Dulcinea Del Toboso, Queen of Women
Spanish                                            16
St. William, Chief Bard                                                           English                                             16
St. John of the Liminal Lips                                                     English                                             17
St. John the Lady of the Devil’s Party                                     English                                             17
St. Jean, Playwright-Poet                                                        French                                             17
St. Battista of the Holy Recurso                                              Italian                                              18
St. Denis of Enlightened Largesse, Poetic Journalism &
Encyclopedic Acceptance                                                   French                                             18
St. Laurence, Comic Skeptic and Innovator                            English                                             18
St. Wolfgang of the Aphoristic Werthers                               German                                           18
St. William of Emanuel and Immanuel                                  English                                             18
St. Jane of the Bourgeois Supremacy                                     English                                             18
St. Sergeyevich of the Serene Order of Cuckolds                   Russian                                            19
St. Boz Huffam, Fatalist and Sentimentalist                           English                                             19
St. SK, Knight of Infinite Faith and Finite Love                        Danish                                             19
St. Herman, Mythmonger                                                       American                                        19
St. George, Novelist                                                                English                                             19
St. Charles of the Desiccating Virgin                                      French                                             19
St. Fyodor of Our Fulminations
Russian                                            19
St. Leo of Our Contradictions
Russian                                            19
St. Lewis, of Mirrors and Alice, and Ludwidge, son of Charles
English            19
St. Thomas of the Tragic Destinies                                         English                                             19
St. Manley, Christian                                                              English                                             19
St. Antichrist, Philosopher, Psychologist, Friedrich                German                                           19
St. Arthur, Scatologist, Son of the Devil                                  French                                             19
St. Anton of the Gentle Brutal Insights                                   Russian                                            19
St. William, Mythmonger, Silliman, and Poet                        Irish                                                 20
St. Frost, Poet                                                                          American                                        20
St. Maria, Angelologist                                                           German                                           20
St. Alan Alexander of Daphne and Vespers                            English                                             20
St. Adeline, Pioneer Poet of the Female Spirit                       English                                             20
St. Joyce of the Holy Bloomers                                               Irish                                                 20
St. Franz, Doctor of Law                                                          Bohemian                                        20
St. Thomas, Poet
American-English                            20
St. R. Reuel, Mythmonger                                                      English                                             20
St. Jorges Borges, Mirrorist, Labyrinthist, and Librarian       Argentinian                                     20
St. Wystan, Poet
English-American                            20
St. Cormac, Mythmonger and Judge                                      American                                        20
                                                                                                
Painting
St. El Bosco, Hell Guide                                                           Dutch                                         CE 15
St. Gherardini, Bastard                                                           Italian                                              15
St. Albrecht, The Devout                                                         German                                           15
St. Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, He Who Overcometh          Italian                                              16
St. Pieter, The Accepting                                                        Dutch                                               16
St. Michelangelo of Desperate Fears and Desolate Tenderness
Italian            16
St. Harmenszoon, the Compassionate                                    Dutch                                               17
St. Johannes Diego, Presence and Absence
Dutch-Spanish                                 17
St. Vincent, Painter                                                                 Dutch                                               19

Music
St. Georg, Composer
German-English                         CE 18
St. Johann, Chief Musician and God’s Own Son Most Truly
German                                           18
St. Joannes Chrysostomus Nobilis Dominus Leopoldus Lamprecht Capellanus Civicus Theophilus Pergmayr Senator Wolfgangus Wolfgango Wolfgang Trazom Amadeo Amadè Amade Adam Gottlieb Mzt Mozartus Aulae Musicus et Maria Anna Pertlin coniuges et Mercator Civicus pro tempore sponsus,
Composer
German                                           18
St. Beet-Beat, Composer
German-Austrian                            18
St. Pyotr Ilyich Lebedinoe Ozero, Composer                          Russian                                            19
St. Glenn, Pianist                                                                     Canadian                                         20
St. Bug, Patron of Our Flesh                                                   English                                             20

Other
St. Marcus V. Pollio, Codifier and Architect                           Roman                                       BCE 1
St. Georges-Eugène Paris, Destroyer                                     French                                        CE 19
St. Joseph, Director
English-American                            20
St. Ingmar, Director                                                                Swedish                                           20
St. Stan, Director
American-English                            20

29.12.11

Index to the Proper of Saints - By Saint


A – C

Aeschylus         St. Aeschylus, Warrior and Playwright
August 24

Augustine          St. Augustine, Hippo of Bishops
August 28

Auden                St. Wystan, Poet
February 10

Austen              St. Jane of the Bourgeois Supremacy
March 22

Bach                St. Johann, Chief Musician and God’s
                               Own Son Most Truly
July 28

Baudelaire      St. Charles of the Desiccating Virgin
October 11

Beatles          St. Bug, Patron of Our Flesh
June 18

Beethoven     St. Beet-Beat, Composer
November 18

Bergman        St. Ingmar, Director
November 22

Blake              St. William of Emanuel and Immanuel
March 29

Borges          St. Jorges Borges, Mirrorist, Labyrinthist and Librarian
February 29

Bosch           St. El Bosco, Hell Guide
November 11

Brueghel       St. Pieter, The Accepting
Free Time

Caravaggio   St. Michelangelo of Desperate Fears and
                              Desolate Tenderness
September 17

Lewis Carroll     St. Lewis of Mirrors and Alice, and Ludwidge,
                                   son of Charles
July 4

Cervantes      St. Saavedra, Cripple of Lepanto and of Dulcinea del Toboso,
                                    Queen of Women
September 29

Chaucer        St. Geoff, Chief Flatulator
November 5

Chekov       St. Pavlovich of the Gentle Brutal Insights
September 10

Chuang Tzu   St. Tzu, Pomo Bandit
February 15

Thomas Cranmer   St. Thomas and the BCPs
January 10

D – F

Dante        St. Alighieri of Beatrice
June 19

David       St. David, Poet and King
November 26

Dickens     St. Boz Huffam, Fatalist and Sentimentalist
March 3

Diderot     St. Denis of Enlightened Largesse, Poetic
                       Journalism & Encyclopedic Acceptance
January 23

Donne        St. John of the Liminal Lips
August 15

Dostoevsky   St. Fyodor of our Darkest Fulminations
November 16

Dürer         St. Albrecht, The Devout
September 22

Eckhart/Weil    St. Johann-Simone, Mystic and Martyr
April 22

G Eliot      St. George, Novelist
March 16

TS Eliot     St. Thomas, Poet
May 8

Euripides     St. Euripides, Humanist and Playwright
February 28

Frost      St. Frost, Poet
July 8

G – K

Goethe       St. Wolfgang of the Aphoristic Werthers
January 15

Gould        St. Glenn, Pianist
Free Time

Handel     St. Georg, Composer
November 3

Hardy      St. Thomas of the Tragic Destinies
November 27

Haussmann    St. Georges-Eugène Paris, Destroyer
Free Time

Heraclitus  St. Hairy Clitoris, Primal Philosopher
April 24

Hitchcock   St. Joseph, Director
November 24

Homer      St. Homer, Primal Bard
March 11

Hopkins    St. Manley, Christian
December 7

Isaiah     St. Isaiah of the Vatic Perfections
July 18

Job      St. Job, Saint of Saints
June 21

John     St. John the Divine, God’s Beloved and Lover of Words
September 23

Joyce    St. Joyce of the Holy Bloomers
June 16

Kafka      St. Franz, Doctor of Law
September 14

Kierkegaard     St. SK, Knight of Infinite Faith and Finite Love
November 13

Kubrick      St. Stan, Director
September 9

L – O

Lao Tzu    St. Tzu, Mirrorist and Sage
October 25

McCarthy  St. Cormac, Mythmonger and Judge
September 11

Melville     St. Herman, Mythmonger
February 23

Michelangelo   St. Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni,
                                  He Who Overcometh
September 3

AA Milne  St. Alan Alexander of Daphne and Vespers
January 31

Milton    St. John the Lady of the Devil’s Party
April 27

Montaigne   St. Eyquem, Essayist, Skeptic, Realist,
                           Humanist, Stoic, Condemnatist
November 1

Moses     St. Moses, Mythmonger and Creator of Creation
March 20

Mozart      St. Joannes Chrysostomus Nobilis
                   Dominus Leopoldus Lamprecht
                    Capellanus Civicus Theophilus
                      Pergmayr Senator Wolfgangus
                        Wolfgango Wolfgang Trazom
                         Amadeo Amadè Amade Adam
                          Gottlieb Mzt Mozartus Aulae
                           Musicus et Maria Anna
                            Pertlin coniuges et
                             Mercator Civicus pro
                              tempore sponsus,
                               Composer
September 12

Nietzsche  St. Antichrist, Philosopher, Psychologist,
                       Friedrich
September 8

Ovid      St. Publius, Mythmonger
January 7

P – S

Paul     St. Paul, Zealot and Pragmatic Transcendentalist
June 29

Plato      St. Play-Doh, Chief Philosopher
March 6

Pushkin    St. Sergeyevich of the Serene Order of Cuckolds
October 5

Racine      St. Jean, Playwright-poet
June 17

Rembrandt    St. Harmenszoon, the Compassionate
November 20

Rilke      St. Maria, Angelologist
February 5

Rimbaud    St. Arthur, Scatologist, Son of the Devil
July 12

Shakespeare   St. William, Chief Bard
April 23

Sappho     St. Sappho, Primal Lovebard
July 3

Solomon    St. Solomon, Sage and King
February 21

Sophocles    St. Sophocles, Playwright
December 3

Sterne       St. Laurence, Comic Skeptic and Innovator
March 9

T – Z

Tchaikovsky    St. Pyotr Ilyich Lebedinoe Ozero, Composer
March 17

Tolkien      St. R. Reuel, Mythmonger
July 21

Tolstoy     St. Lev of Our Contradictions
August 15

Van Gogh  St. Vincent, Painter
February 9

Velazquez-Vermeer    St. Johannes Diego, Presence and Absence
August 15

Vico     St. Battista of the Holy Recurso
January 2

da Vinci   St. Gherardini, Bastard
July 13

Vitrivius   St. Marcus V. Pollio, Codifier and Architect
February 2

Woolf       St. Adeline, Pioneer Poet of the Female Spirit
February 22

Yeats     St. William, Mythmonger, Silliman, Poet
January 19

Malfeasances

Anonymous Saints
December 13

Bach
March 15

Beasts
May 15

Children
January 13

Creation
November 13

Epics
July 15

Gods
October 15

Lesser Saints
April 13

Shakespeare
September 13

The Three Weird Sisters
August 13

Translators
February 13

Women
June 13

28.12.11

Index to the Proper of Saints - By Calendar


January
2   Vico
      St. Battista of the Holy Recurso
7   Ovid
      St. Publius, Mythmonger
10 Thomas Cranmer
      St. Thomas and the BCPs
13 Malfeasance
      Malfeasance of Children
15 Goethe
      St. Wolfgang of the Aphoristic Werthers
19 Yeats
      St. William, Mythmonger, Silliman, Poet
23 Diderot
      St. Denis of Enlightened Largesse,
          Poetic Journalism & Encyclopedic Acceptance
31 AA Milne
      St. Alan Alexander of Daphne and Vespers
February
2  Vitrivius
St. Marcus V. Pollio, Codifier and Architect
5  Rilke
     St. Maria, Angelologist
9  Van Gogh
     St. Vincent, Painter   
10  Auden
       St. Wystan, Poet
13  Malfeasance
      Malfeasance of Translators
15  Chuang Tzu
      St. Tzu, Pomo Bandit
21  Solomon
      St. Solomon, Sage and King
22  Woolf
       St. Adeline, Pioneer Poet of the Female Spirit
23  Melville
       St. Herman, Mythmonger
28  Euripides
      St. Euripides, Humanist and Playwright
29  Borges
      St. Jorges Borges, Mirrorist, Labyrinthist and Librarian
March
3  Dickens
    St. Boz Huffam, Fatalist and Sentimentalist
6  Plato
     St. Play-Doh, Chief Philosopher
9  Sterne
     St. Laurence, Comic Skeptic and Innovator
11 Homer
     St. Homer, Primal Bard
15 Malfeasance
      Malfeasance of Bach
16 G Eliot
      St. George, Novelist
17 Tchaikovsky
      St. Pyotr Ilyich Lebedinoe Ozero, Composer
20  Moses
       St. Moses, Mythmonger and Creator of Creation
22  Austen
       St. Jane of the Bourgeois Supremacy
29  Blake
       St. William of Emanuel and Immanuel        
April
13  Malfeasance
      Malfeasance of Lesser Saints
22  Eckhart/Weil
      St. Johann-Simone, Mystic and Martyr
23  Shakespeare
      St. William, Chief Bard
24  Heraclitus
       St. Hairy Clitoris, Primal Philosopher
27  Milton
       St. John the Lady of the Devil’s Party
May
8 TS Eliot
St. Thomas, Poet
15  Malfeasance
       Malfeasance of Beasts         
June
13  Malfeasance
      Malfeasance of Women
16  Joyce
      St. Joyce of the Holy Bloomers
17  Racine
      St. Jean, Playwright-poet
18  Beatles
      St. Bug, Patron of Our Flesh
19  Dante
      St. Alighieri of Beatrice
21  Job
       St. Job, Saint of Saints
29   Paul
       St. Paul, Zealot and Pragmatic Transcendentalist
Free Time
        Gould
       St. Glenn, Pianist
    
       Brueghel
       St. Pieter, The Accepting
       
       Haussmann
       St. Georges-Eugène Paris, Destroyer

July
3  Sappho
    St. Sappho, Primal Lovebard
4  Lewis Carroll
    St. Lewis of Mirrors and Alice, and Ludwidge, son of Charles
8  Frost
     St. Frost, Poet
12  Rimbaud
      St. Arthur, Scatologist, Son of the Devil
13  da Vinci
       St. Gherardini, Bastard
15  Malfeasance
       Malfeasance of Epics
18  Isaiah
       St. Isaiah of the Vatic Perfections
21  Tolkien
       St. R. Reuel, Mythmonger
28   Bach
        St. Johann, Chief Musician and God’s Own Son Most Truly
August
13  Malfeasance
       Malfeasance of the Three Weird Sisters
15   Donne
        St. John of the Liminal Lips
15   Tolstoy
        St. Lev of Our Contradictions
15   Velazquez-Vermeer
        St. Johannes Diego, Presence and Absence
24    Aeschylus
        St. Aeschylus, Warrior and Playwright
28    Augustine
        St. Augustine, Hippo of Bishops
September
3  Michelangelo
    St. Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, He Who Overcometh
8  Nietzsche
    St. Antichrist, Philosopher, Psychologist, Friedrich
9  Kubrick
    St. Stan, Director
10 Chekov
      St. Pavlovich of the Gentle Brutal Insights
11  McCarthy
       St. Cormac, Mythmonger and Judge
12   Mozart
        St. Joannes Chrysostomus Nobilis Dominus Leopoldus
         Lamprecht Capellanus Civicus Theophilus Pergmayr
          Senator Wolfgangus Wolfgango Wolfgang Trazom Amadeo
          Amadè Amade Adam Gottlieb Mzt Mozartus Aulae Musicus
           et Maria Anna Pertlin coniuges et Mercator Civicus
             pro tempore sponsus, Composer
13  Malfeasance
       Malfeasance of Shakespeare
14   Kafka
       St. Franz, Doctor of Law
17  Caravaggio
       St. Michelangelo of Desperate Fears and Desolate Tenderness
22   Dürer
       St. Albrecht, The Devout
23   John
        St. John the Divine, God’s Beloved and Lover of Words
29   Cervantes
        St. Saavedra, Cripple of Lepanto and of Dulcinea del Toboso,
          Queen of Women
October
5  Pushkin
    St. Sergeyevich of the Serene Order of Cuckolds
11  Baudelaire
      St. Charles of the Desiccating Virgin
15  Malfeasance
        Malfeasance of Gods
25   Lao Tzu
        St. Tzu, Mirrorist and Sage
November
1  Montaigne
    St. Eyquem, Essayist, Skeptic, Realist, Humanist, Stoic, Condemnatist
3  Handel
     St. Georg, Composer
5  Chaucer
     St. Geoff, Chief Flatulator
11  Bosch
       St. El Bosco, Hell Guide
13   Malfeasance
        Malfeasance of Creation
14   Kierkegaard
       St. SK, Knight of Infinite Faith and Finite Love
16   Dostoevsky
        St. Fyodor of our Darkest Fulminations
18    Beethoven
         St. Beet-Beat, Composer
20   Rembrandt
         St. Harmenszoon, the Compassionate
22  Bergman
       St. Ingmar, Director
24  Hitchcock
       St. Joseph, Director
26   David
       St. David, Poet and King
27   Hardy
        St. Thomas of the Tragic Destinies
December
3  Sophocles
     St. Sophocles, Playwright
7   Hopkins
      St. Manley, Christian
13  Malfeasance
       Malfeasance of Anonymous Saints

27.12.11

Proper of Saints: Doo's bio-


Hesperia Lingarius Masma Doo wrote the Proper of Saints in 94 days, when incarcerated in the tenth century with only a jar of pickles and the Roman Gradual.

Mr. Ms. Doo (having been subject to numerous sexual transformations throughout his and her life), upon being captivated by the Proprium de Sanctis, immediately realized that in her home century—the twenty-first—sainthood had secretly migrated from religion to art, for it was the artists who mediated between heaven, earth, and hell in modernity; religion had become a relic which mediated only fear—and that very poorly.  Augustine, Aquinas, and Mother Teresa are saints no longer … they’ve been replaced by Homer, Bach, and Van Gogh.

Doo, then, in a flurry of medieval inspiration, wrote the true biographies of 81 great saints, along with 12 malfeasances and an introduction that effectively places the religion-art transformation in a historical-philosophical-aesthetic-cultural-linguistic-spiritual context.  Upon completion, Doo returned to the third millennium to test some of his and her ideas in the bedrooms, boardrooms, kitchens, and alleys of the human world.  To this day, Doo finds her theory gloriously seductive which, as any evolved human knows, is a prime indicator of truth.

The Secular Sadoo is pleased to introduce Doo’s Proper of Saints to its reading public.  We will be following the liturgical calendar, publishing each Proper on its proper day throughout 2012.

26.12.11


Darkness burns far brighter than light.  Its black flame is more potent, its reach further, its hope more boundless.  Light is the child of darkness and those who fear darkness the children of light.  These grandchildren, happy in forgetting their grandparent, presumed lost at sea, to dance on the shoals of knowledge.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  The sheets of darkness are pulled across your nudity, across your eyes, at night, and night again, and you forget its flames in the pills and disasters of the technological morning or you present them, wrapped in strings of words, to analysts, who turn them into light for cash or sex or children or something else or all of the above, or you use art or its shadow, entertainment, this heat, this tongue, to enter a lighter sleep, cool-warm, the make-believe womb of power, art’s frequent effect.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  Do not flee the brighter light, even though it sucks you down.  Without this danger, darkness is not darkness and you can never burn.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  What is darkness?  Darkness is waiting and watching, stillness and nothing, the wordless equality that crawls from the embodied knowledge that every thing is a god.  It is the chaos we crave and fear and work toward in our cosmopolitan denial.  For darkness must be the center of all acts and words and thoughts and things, and that is why all things are gods.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  Its fuel is a composite of doubt and death, the egg and seed of life.  Darkness is no friend or savior, but neither is light.  Light pretends to befriend, but darkness does not.  Light pretends and its pretense is not unreal.  Darkness does not pretend and its lack of pretense is not a matter of trust or nobility or anything particular, but the feeling evoked in its presence.  Light is the absence of darkness and darkness the fullness of light.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  Every gram of new consciousness, each euphoric and progressive comma, everything making your life comfortable and pleasurable, each truth that dams the night, leaks from darkness’ masked expanse.  Yet humans, who seem to crave little more than comfortable pleasures, would hide and try to slay their source, as if they were babes of spirit and cowards of the soul.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  The birds of darkness, screeching silently through centuries, broke through my bedroom window one lost November, pecking out my eyes, filling the cavities with fire.  I walked into the streets and the people of the bright urban night, upon seeing me, fled to drink and flesh and the caresses of electricity.  I walked on.  Was I to thank the birds of darkness?  Was I to curse them?  I only knew they do what they must do when they must, ripping aside the lighted veil to show the still translucent veil of darkness.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  This darkness is not some esoteric, cultic, theosophist, ecstatic or depressive, exclusivist, occult, or material knowledge, other than the material knowledge that is not usually called knowledge, for it simply exists, without need to explain or describe.  This darkness is calm, unruffled, without impulse, below and in and through every word.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  Darkness eats light and desires it.  Producing gargantuan quantities of light from our secret love of darkness and knowledge of its need, we feed darkness rather than resting in it, but in doing so cloister and abuse its capacities while remaining encapsulated in our burden of light.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  Darkness is more passionate, more intelligent, witty, more courageous, innovative, and more fun than light.  It dances harder, lighter, longer; it makes the dance and is the memory of the dance.  Darkness stretches the circle to its ecstatic limits of futility and in stretching breaks what it contains, and its methods of breaking are myriad; the impossibilities and the breaking drive the people to light.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  The creatures of darkness, knowing their namelessness, know darkness is a moniker, its nickname often confused by those buried in names with light’s enemy, as if light—if it is truly light—could have an enemy.  But light, being born of darkness and not something other than it, knows no enemies until it forgets its ancestry and falsely claims autonomy on god’s infinite palette.  What structures are there which enable such forgetting and what is their appeal?  The creatures of darkness, having been compelled to burrow through them, might be able to say, but seem to choose silence, and this silencing may say more about what enables than the saying.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  It is made of flame and fuel and charcoal formed of the bodies of gods long dead and forgotten.  They who would burn, not with electric light, that cool copy and shadow and regulation, but with the inferno of origins and the death of origins, which is no hell unless heaven be hell, become flame and fuel and charcoal and in becoming must live in death according to the means granted them, though this death, like this darkness, has no opposition.

Darkness burns far brighter than light.  Darkness washes sin and erases alienation.  It looks at telephone poles and presidents and through its eyeless vision sees no difference.  Would all humans have these eyes, how would the trees and rivers appear?  How might we talk about this representation?  Would we see it as a gift and is this gift the gift, the one we cannot give ourselves?

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