I did not spend forty days at Slieve League (‘Gray Mountain’) – more like forty minutes. But the temptation to get frustrated was real.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Picture-perfect
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Tags: chutzpah, Ireland, Lent, Lent 2017, Prince of Darkness, Slieve League, Temptations of Christ, The Nylons, Wild Atlantic Way
Today’s find: Fry-day
The first Friday in Lent…and “communal abstinence” is breaking out all over.
The season of Parish Fish Fries has begun!
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Tags: Abstinence, Almsgiving, Daughters of St. Paul, Fasting, Fish Fries, Fish Fry, Isaiah, Kairos Prison Ministry, Lent, Lent 2017, Lenten Practices, Pauline Books & Media
Today’s find: Less of me
There’s a vile connection, I’ve noticed, between a certain pair of digital read-outs that are part of my daily routine.
Or perhaps it’s a ‘vital’ connection.
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Tags: Ash Wednesday, Bathroom scale, Lent, Lenten Practices, Psalm 51, Steadfast spirit, Steadfast Spirit 2013, treadmill
Today’s find: Obscure faith
We lose something important, it seems to me, when we learn to stand up and walk and talk.
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Tags: eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Infant, Isaiah 49, Jeannie Ewing, Kairos Prison Ministry, Obscure faith, shame
Today’s find: Upgrade
A pair of new ‘smart phones’ came into our lives this week, and the reviews are decidedly mixed.
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Tags: Addiction, Apple Computer, iOS, iPhone 7, original sin, Sermon on the Mount, Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Smart Phone, Upgrade
Today’s find: Mussar
I encountered a new word today, ‘mussar’.
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Tags: mensch, Mussar, Science of Character
Today’s find: Shining light
Some might say this candle of ours has seen better days.
At the very least, it’s seen a LOT of days…
Today’s find: Crowd-sourced sanctity
Sometimes, I wonder: Did Jesus ever just have a bad day? Or simply an especially tiring one?
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Tags: Beatitudes, Crowd-sourced, Crowdsourcing, Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Matthew, sanctity, social network
Today’s find: Do-over
We haven’t had much to cheer about this season…we fans of the SLU Men’s Basketball Billikens. Just three seasons removed from a conference championship, our guys have become the bottom-feeders in the Atlantic 10.
Adding insult to injury, the university’s athletic department ‘re-designed’ the team’s mascot this season—turning our beloved Billiken into something that was borderline demonic.
Last night though there was redemption of sorts.
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Tags: America magazine, James Martin S.J., New Billiken Mascot, SLU, SLU Billikens, The Wall
Today’s find: Transfer of power
‘Armageddon’ or ‘Awesome miracle’? It’s remarkable to consider how one event can be perceived in two such contradictory ways. But if my Twitter feed is any indication, this is precisely the case for the ‘transfer of power’ that occurred in the US on Friday.
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Tags: Herod, John the Baptist, President Obama, President Trump, Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, Transfer of Power
With Us Still 