Author Archives: John Schroeder

About John Schroeder

A spiritual pilgrim (and untrained preacher)...who writes pretty well...and thoroughly enjoys sharing stories of his encounters along the way. Most days, those encounters are occurring in and around my community in Manchester, MO (St. Joseph Parish). For more about my commercial experience, see my Personal Links below. http://www.corpwrite.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/corpwrite https://withusstill.wordpress.com/

Today’s find: Discovery

Posted on May 21, 2023 by John Schroeder

Any good Gramps knows this is NOT the sort of behavior he should encourage in a little guy.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Ascension of the Lord, Discovery, Father Bob Reiker, Peek-a-boo

Today’s find: Always

Posted on May 14, 2023 by John Schroeder

“Do you have a cold?” my dear Momma said to me, just the other day.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Always, Mother's Day, Sixth Sunday of Easter

Today’s find: Post-time

Posted on May 7, 2023 by John Schroeder

The ponies were uncharacteristically accommodating to my Sweetie and me during yesterday’s running of the Kentucky Derby.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: All things new, Derby Day, Fifth Sunday of Easter, Kentucky Derby, Post-time, Wager

Today’s find: Hop and a skip

Posted on April 30, 2023 by John Schroeder

Sure, it’s one of my all-time favorite Golf League stories. But I bet it’s been 15 years since I told it last. Then, curiously, I find myself telling the tale twice in two days – on two different courses.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Fourth Sunday of Easter, Golf League, Good Shepherd Sunday, Hop and a skip

Today’s find: Emmaus egg

Posted on April 23, 2023 by John Schroeder

I’m thinking maybe the egg moved.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Emmaus egg, Road to Emmaus, Surgery, Third Sunday of Easter

Today’s find: Wide open

Posted on April 16, 2023 by John Schroeder

It was not lost on me, the fact that I was encountering an empty tabernacle on the eve of April 14, the calendar date that I consider my “second birthday.”

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Today’s find: Vigil

Posted on April 9, 2023 by John Schroeder

The tree’s been there every bit of 35 years, maybe all of 41 – as long as our eldest son has been alive, I thought. So why did it seem as if it had been planted for just this moment?

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Abraham and Isaac, Easter, Easter Vigil

Today’s find: Washed

Posted on April 7, 2023 by John Schroeder

I wonder if the Romans thought it odd, the way they treated a lifeless body just now taken down from the cross.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Good Friday, Washed

Today’s find: Preparations

Posted on April 5, 2023 by John Schroeder

In the pre-dawn gloom, I encountered a beacon of hope this morning: a trio of long-dark light fixtures illuminating the iconic bell tower at my parish once again.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Bell Tower, Holy Week, The Passion