Got my alarm set for Sunday morning, so that I can take advantage of the “drive-thru distribution” of blessed palms up at the parish.
And thus begins the oddest Holy Week I have ever experienced.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Palms, becalmed
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Tags: Covid-19, Holy City, Holy Week, Hosanna, Jerusalem, Lamina, Old City Jerusalem, Palm frond, Palm Sunday, Passion Sunday
Today’s find: Course correction
Surely among the least of the deprivations caused by Covid-19, I note that today was SUPPOSED to be ‘Opening Day’ for our golf league.
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Tags: Aberdeen Golf Club, Divine Mercy Sunday, Golf League, Mercy, O, St. Joe Golf League
Today’s find: Better, together
Day 8 of “shelter-in-place”: in which I disassemble a corded hedge trimmer, for parts.
Today’s find: ‘Yes’
Care to “shelter-in-place”? The answer, of course, is “yes.”
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Tags: Annunciation, Basilica of the Annunciation, Coronavirus, Feast of the Annunciation, Galilee, Holy Land, Nazareth, Pandemic, Quarantine, Shelter-in-place, Yes
Today’s find: Marker
I had occasion to spend a little time at the Pool of Siloam the other day.
Today’s find: ‘Social Distance’
While taking care to maintain our ‘social distance’…and to wash our hands regularly…a few of the “6:30 Mass regulars” have chosen to keep our post-Mass kaffeeklatsch going — even without Mass — in recent days.
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Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Day 22, Not knowing, Social Distance, Steadfast spirit
Today’s find: Double-bye
A week ago, I had a really good feeling about my favorite college basketball team – the SLU Billikens.
Today’s find: Wheels up
A year ago today, I was preparing to bid farewell to Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
Today’s find: Witty Wetta
I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting when my friend Joe and I rose before dawn today…in order to catch a bite of breakfast with Fr. Augustine Wetta OSB.
Today’s find: State of bean
I landed a gig as sous-chef for the first of our parish Fish Frys the other day.
“Sous-chef”: I guess that’s what you’d call it. Our master bean-maker wisely did not trust this rookie with wielding the industrial can opener. But he did permit me to drain the humongous cans of green beans, once opened.
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Tags: First Sunday of Lent, Fish Fry, Sous-chef, State of Bean, Temptation in the Desert, Temptations of Christ
With Us Still 