Beauty intrudes, like a gentle kiss from the Holy Spirit…
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Sorrowful mysteries
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Tags: Consolation, Contemplative Mary, Covid-19, DeSmet Jesuit High School, Edward Berns, Good Friday, Good Friday 2020, Pandemic
Today’s find: Seeking a quiet place
And so it begins, this most unusual of Triduum celebrations.
What I notice mostly is this: All of my “Holy Week” rhythms are “off” – completely out of whack.
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Tags: Agony in the garden, Covid-19, Garden of Gethsemane, Holy Thursday, Holy Thursday 2020, Jerusalem
Today’s find: Hot Wheels
We waited until we knew the grandsons were napping this afternoon… before making a “socially distant” drop-off of Easter goodies on their front stoop.
Somehow, the cloak-and-dagger tactics seemed to fit the day.
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Tags: Betrayal, Holy Week, Holy Week 2020, Hot Wheels, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Monster Truck, Spy Wednesday, Triduum
Today’s find: Provisioning
Covid-19 claimed another piece of normalcy today, and I felt the reverberations in my “lizard brain.”
It’s never good when that happens – when I sense that my “fight or flight” reflex has been activated. Oddly, the trigger in this case was a trip to the grocery store.
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Tags: Covid-19, Gratitude, Holy Week, Indignation, Martha and Mary, Monday of Holy Week, Provisioning
Today’s find: Palms, becalmed
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.
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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
