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Nearly-Christmas Notes
It’s boiling hot outside. About half an hour ago I stepped outdoors for two seconds, and I’m still warm. In fact, I think I’m actually turning into leather. So now I’m indoors, looking out at the...
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The Triduum Ten, 2014
The Easter Triduum is done! Here are some things to love about it: 1. Young men amassing It’s like seeing all the intermittent characters of your favourite television series suddenly appearing in the...
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The View from the Loft
The obvious piece of advice to give anyone thinking of joining a liturgical choir is this… don’t do it! Are you crazy? Do you not realise that the liturgical cycle is exactly that? It’s a cycle, which...
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Hail to the Mother
Happy Feast! Between today and the Feast of the Immaculate Heart I’m going to write a lot about Our Lady. There are many good reasons that people struggle with devotion to her. Others get worn down by...
View ArticleShe Gathers the Herbs for Battle
I have arisen from the bronchitis-that-would-not-die to find that we’re just over a month off the Feast of the Assumption. That means it’s time to start preparing the fruit, herbs, spices, and teas for...
View ArticleOn Turning Forty
Single women raised in conservative communities dread their fortieth birthdays. (I don’t know if the same is true for men; it would be interesting to know.) After twenty years feeling the sidelong...
View ArticleWhat Do We Change if We Stay?
Articles abound urging people who are leaving the Church to remain, so that they can, by remaining, save the Church (I think it’s just assumed that this is someone they’d want to do?) Well, obviously I...
View ArticleBurying the Cake – and the Alleluia
I’ve been ironing baby-clothes and thinking about this post by Dorothy Cummings McLean, in which she writes about what it means for a childless woman, after ten years of hoping, to bury the portion of...
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