Category: Marriage
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A Record of Real Life
Grateful thanks to St. Anthony of Padua, or whomever inspired a kind person on the 26 Bus to hand my purple dance notebook to the driver. I felt excruciating loss for a few hours on Sunday evening and then an amazed burst of joy when I received word from Lothian Busses that they had my…
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The dreaded cardboard box
“I thought marriage would make my life easier,” said my then-colleague, many years ago, in a different country, and at an awful workplace. She had met her husband on vacation, spent a lot of money on his immigration, and helped him to get a job. But after he did, his workmates teased him over his…
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Marriage, Merriment, Meaning
Our club is called Mrs McLean’s Waltzing Party instead of Saint Teresa’s Terpsichoreans or Saint Michael’s Merrymakers because of a chance remark made by a small boy years ago when he was even smaller. It is the custom of wise parents to instil Respect for Elders into their children, and thus one parish couple have…
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A Short(ish) Digression about Love
I love the traditional Catholic movement: the dedication to the beautiful Mass of Ages, the claiming of our glorious musical patrimony, the study of the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, the parental responsibility of educating children, the pursuit of virtue and the rejection of vice, the dusting off of old treasures and the fashioning of…