We broke bread with a Druze gentleman at lunchtime, and we were blessed indeed. Continue reading
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Citrus
Our pilgrim bus passed an orange truck on Highway 6, headed north from Tel Aviv on Sunday. Continue reading
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Today’s find: Lofty
Praying with Ps 139, as we arrive in Chicago… Continue reading
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Today’s find: Gait
A certain two-and-a-half-year-old of my acquaintance found a new way to delight this ol’ graybeard the other day.
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Tags: Caeserea Philippi, gait, Galilee, Holy Land, Pilgrimage, self-assurance
Today’s find: Obvious
Wandering into – and through – the mission field: It’s not an exercise meant to boost self-confidence, I’ve decided. (An insight, perhaps, that qualifies me for a DMO degree – Divine Master of the Obvious).
Or perhaps it’s not obvious at all. For we are treated this week to a front row seat, as three separate scriptural characters stumble upon a seemingly simple tidbit of self-awareness.
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Tags: Divine Master of the Obvious, DMO, Holy Haul, Isaiah, Michael Card, Mission Field, Obvious, St. Paul, St. Peter, Things We Leave Behind
Today’s find: Unencumbered envoys
I was a witness this week to technical difficulties that nearly derailed not one…but two different presentations on missionary spirituality.
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Tags: DeSmet Jesuit High School, Envoy, Jesuits, Menard, Pierre DeSmet, Unencumbered Envoy, Visitation Academy
Today’s find: Vortex
It was bracing, to say the least, when I checked the “Outside Temp” reading on our home thermostat in the pre-dawn hours this morning. (-1) it said. Then I got in the car…and watched, with bemusement, as the mercury dipped lower and lower throughout my short jaunt up the road.
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Tags: Alpha and Omega, Arctic Blast, Frigid Temps, Polar Vortex
Today’s find: G-G-G
In our immediate circle, she has in recent years become known as “G-G-G” – Great-Grandma Georgia. Many more know and love her by other names: “Aunt Georgia,” “Georgia,” “Mom.”
She is beloved, seemingly by all. Even so, in her 92nd year, G-G-G can delight and surprise her second-born son…a guy who’s known her for nearly 62 years.
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Tags: Anima Christi, G-G-G, Grandmother Lois, Great Grandma Georgia, Mother Eunice, St. Timothy, St. Titus
Today’s find: Unlikely
I just love the way this feast day sneaks up on me – January 25, the Conversion of St. Paul.
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Tags: August Turak, Brother John, Conversion of St. Paul, Self Knowledge Symposium, SKS
Today’s find: Ordinary Xmas
Do you hear what I hear?
I’m guessing not…not unless you were within a pitching wedge of Randolph Hall, inside Menard Correctional Center, on Saturday afternoon. Continue reading
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With Us Still 