Category: Instructions

I was thinking today that I first came across properTanzkarten at the May 2022 Order of Malta Ball in Edinburgh. However, I suddenly remembered that I had seen them as a child in my grandmother’s scrapbook. This particular grandmother came from money, and if the scrapbook is anything to go by, she had a lot…

I had the most interesting conversation the other day after Mass with a younger-than-me man. He was sharing his experiences of dating younger-than-him women and how deeply shocked they are by opinions that run contrary to those they have been taught at secondary school and/or university. I mentioned my own self-defeating beliefs as a young…

Today we are having a Waltzing Party as part of our Gaudete Sunday celebrations. As we always end parties and dances with the seasonal anthem to Our Lady, this afternoon we will sing “Alma Redemptoris Mater”. I often forget the middle part, and some dancers might not know it at all, so here it is…

Rules. Today we flinch at the word, assuming that rules limit our freedom in an onerous way. However, when we see a game that interests us, we want to know the rules before we join in. We know the rules help make the activity what it is, and knowing them puts us at our ease…

On Sunday I spied a new family coming into the parish hall for After-Mass Tea. Perhaps “new” is the wrong word to use, for members of this family have been coming to our Mass recently, thanks in part to the Michaelmas dance workshops held around the corner. However, the Michaelmas Dance is over and done,…

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 the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution by fleeing Russia. She had a long life in the USA and Canada as a champion of the poor, but today…