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Flora Watkins
In praise of Christmas creep
Between school fêtes, nativity plays, forgotten posting dates, and three children’s stockings, December can feel like a test of endurance.
Mary’s dowry: the sisters bringing England back to Walsingham
The Community of Our Lady of Walsingham are expanding their mission with joy, humour and faith — living out Mary’s “yes” and drawing new generations to England’s national shrine.
Cradle Catholics don’t seem to struggle as much: trying to stay abreast of the annual feasts
Given that days of obligation are different in every country and in England if the relevant day falls on a Saturday or Monday it gets moved to the adjacent Sunday – which doesn't happen in Scotland – might we be cut a bit of slack?
How to choose godparents
For better or worse, the right sponsors may not be the obvious choice
Snowdrops at Candlemas: there's no fairer tribute to loved ones than 'Mary’s Tapers'
into brown paper bags went the bulbs i would need for a particular project. snowdrops, of course; i picked the familiar galanthus niva...
Trite Christmas: back to the future with the corny playlists of our youth
”strange how potent cheap music is,” muses amanda in noël coward’s private lives . how perfectly this encapsulates the way i feel the first ...
Lighten up about 'religious' concerns over Halloween: young children love ghouls and ghosties
as i write, with the weather on the turn and summer lapsing away like grief, as emily dickinson put it, there are daily consolatory inspecti...
One eye on the Emerald Isle: The grass seems greener on the other side of the Irish Sea
after cromwell’s conquest of ireland, according to our host, those irish catholics not executed for taking part in the 1641 rebellion were e...
Ends and means: It’s not always easy persuading children of the importance of their faith
towards the end of graham greene’s the end of the affair , sarah’s mother tells bendrix that she always hoped her daughter’s secret catholic...
The 80th anniversary of D-Day is a moment for both gratitude and apprehension
i sit in one of the dives on fifty-second street uncertain and afraid as the clever hopes expire of a low dishonest decade..." so begins wh ...
Why are some people so intolerant about children at Mass?
i have just stomped in from an otherwise lovely day celebrating our eldest child reaching double figures. children being rather more sophist...
Children at Mass: Why are some people so intolerant?
i have just stomped in from an otherwise lovely day celebrating our eldest child reaching double figures. children being rather more sophist...
Everything in London has changed, except the familiar scents of the Oratory
it has taken two-and-a-half years, but i have finally crossed the rubicon and feel a stranger in the city that was home for more than two de...
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