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: Essential equipment

Posted on April 17, 2021 by John Schroeder

Golf may perhaps be more than a game – at least in the case of my weak-willed spirit.

For golf, it seems, has a way of teaching me about certain spiritual defects, such as vanity.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Driver, Essential Equipment, Golf, Links to LaSalle, Resteck, Third Sunday of Easter

Today’s find: Born from above

Posted on April 13, 2021 by John Schroeder

Just about this time every year, I find myself reflecting on the fact that I have something of a soul brother in Nicodemus.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Born from above, Easter 2021, Makoto Fujimura, Nicodemus, Nihonga

Today’s find: Stuck

Posted on April 10, 2021 by John Schroeder

We transplanted some Resurrection Lilies last week, just in time for Easter.

Suffice it to say, it’s not going well.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Divine Mercy Sunday, Easter 2021, Resurrection Lilies, Second Sunday of Easter

Today’s find: Ardent silence

Posted on April 1, 2021 by John Schroeder

Unsettling, isn’t it, to recall how “pandemic” took “pan de vida” away from most of us last year…

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Ardent silence, Eucharist, Francois Mauriac, Holy Thursday, Holy Thursday 2021, Memento Mori, Pandemic

Today’s find: Haunted

Posted on March 30, 2021 by John Schroeder

“It was night,” writes the Evangelist in the gospel passage we hear on Tuesday of Holy Week.

I am haunted by that night.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Holy Week, Holy Week 2021, Jerusalem, Memento Mori, St. Peter in Gallicantu, Tuesday of Holy Week

Today’s find: Heavens

Posted on March 28, 2021 by John Schroeder

A fair sky gave good account of its vastness the other evening.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Cirrocumulus, Heavens, Holy Week, Holy Week 2021, Memento Mori, Self-reliance, Sin, St. Peter

Today’s find: Solemnity

Posted on March 25, 2021 by John Schroeder

As Roman Catholics around the world celebrate the great feast of the Annunciation today, I am reminded of the visit we made on pilgrimage to the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth two years ago…

Here’s a link to some reflections and photos I posted at that time:

Today’s find: Holy rubble

And I am moved, also, today…to pray for the Christians who now live in Nazareth, and in all areas of the world where it is difficult to BE a Christian — on a feast day, or any other day of the week.

Let us remember that we are in the presence of the Holy & Merciful One.

IHS

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Today’s find: Seeking wellness

Posted on March 18, 2021 by John Schroeder

The COVID vaccine tends to make beggars of us all – at least in my state of residence, and in my age-bracket.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Covid vaccine, Covid-19, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lent 2021, Memento Mori, Pfizer vaccine, Seeking wellness

Today’s find: Kite-flying

Posted on March 13, 2021 by John Schroeder

I wasn’t at the end of my rope [or string] the other day. Not even close. This, even though the environment for kite-flying seemed ideal – a brisk steady breeze, punctuated by the occasional muscular gust.

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