The blizzard battering the northeast today certainly had a far different look-and-feel in our neck of the woods.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Everyday wonders
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Tags: Beauty, Blizzard, Everyday Wonders, Idaya Nallidaya, Jesus Is... Concert, Lent, Lent 2017, Malayalam, Psalm 9
Today’s find: Testification
My encounters with praise music on Saturday were a decidedly mixed bag.
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Tags: Christian hip-hop, Christian rap, Crowder Band, Jesus Is..., Kairos Prison Ministry, Lent, Lent 2017, Shai Linne, Testify, Transfiguration
Today’s find: Something greater
It’s not a mortification, exactly…but this Lent I have been trying to spend a little more quality time with Maurice Blondel.
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Tags: aggiornamento, Maurice Blondel, Mortification, Oliva Blanchette, Ressourcement, Vatican II
Today’s find: Picture-perfect
I did not spend forty days at Slieve League (‘Gray Mountain’) – more like forty minutes. But the temptation to get frustrated was real.
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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…
