Author: Dorothy McLean
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Christian Life is Service
I once told a priest about feeling depressed, and he suggested volunteer work as a remedy. Volunteer work was not the answer I was looking for. I had done bibs […]
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Needs must
In Ontario, Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty (née Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkina) is a kind of local saint. The founder of Madonna House, she was an aristocrat who survived […]
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Catholic Choral Symposium in Canada
I have been hoping readers will send me information about their own events, and yesterday I received a lovely message about a choral and organ training seminar in Canada. It […]
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“And those who like us”
Today I picked up flyers for the Eastertide Dance. I’m going to distribute them among Committee members to disseminate among their Catholic friends in places other than our diocesan TLM. […]
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Rejoice, o Jerusalem!
Christians who observe a liturgical calendar do penance for the 40-day season of Lent, which for Latins (i.e. western Catholics) begins on Ash Wednesday. Some take a break for Sundays, […]
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Building Community
Traditional social dancing is all the rage among Traditional Latin Mass communities around the world, and naturally Scotland is no exception. There will be not one but TWO ceilidhs in […]
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Something Better
As Lent slowly creeps forward, I miss dancing. I think back especially to three fun evenings listening and dancing to live jazz bands and watching the flying feet of Balboa […]
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‘Why dance?’
Yesterday I went to a Sunday Lunch and left feeling a little like an ex-belle of the wild Georgian era who has been to a Victorian tea party. The venue, […]
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Dancing lets our light shine
Re-establishing the norm that gentlemen ask ladies to dance (which takes courage and drive) and ladies wait to be asked (which takes patience, charity and hope) is controversial. It courts […]
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How to get asked to dance
But, first, a word about Lent: All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A […]