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.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Less of me
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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
Today’s find: On ice
There’s nothing ‘ordinary’ about the way in which Ordinary time has begun in our neck of the woods. Two waves of ice and sleet have hit the region in the past 24 hours…with a third expected overnight.
Much of ‘ordinary’ life, as a result, has slowed to a crawl: Events canceled…schools, stores and businesses closed…and streets virtually deserted, save for the passing of the occasional salt truck.
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Tags: 2nd Sunday in Ordinary time, Ice Storm, Ice-maggedon, John the Baptist, Ordinary Time
Today’s find: Storm mode
On days like today, there’s really just one disadvantage to a home-based business: Having to send my dear spouse out into the gathering ice-storm to work her shift…while I hunker down all snug and cozy in my basement office, a blazing hearth just a few steps away.
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Tags: Hospitality, Ice Storm, LaSalle, LaSalle Retreat Center, Service, Storm Mode
With Us Still 