It was an odd feeling, gazing out over the gentle contours of the grassy acres where my home once stood.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Lost & Found
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Tags: Gospel of Luke, Lost Sheep, SHP, St. Henry's Prep, St. Henry's Prep Seminary
Today’s find: Giles
A bit of mystery was resolved for me when I came across a hagiography of St. Giles the other day.
“St. Who?”, you say. And that’s precisely my point: I don’t believe I’d ever heard of the man until we landed in Edinburgh on the 4th of July, and took up temporary residence in a flat just across the plaza from that city’s iconic St. Giles Cathedral.
Today’s find: Squadron
I could hear the piston engines – their menacing murmur – long before I actually saw the planes the other evening.
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Tags: Battering ram, Biplane, Biplane Squadron, Biplanes, Gates of Hell, Gospel of Luke, Kairos Prison Ministry, Menard, Menard Correctional Center
Today’s find: Narrow gate
Apparently, our granddaughter’s first attempt to negotiate a narrow gate at the local playground didn’t go all that well yesterday.
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Tags: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Gospel of Luke, Jungle gym, Narrow gate, Tight spot
Today’s find: Dry bones
Live long enough, and you’re bound to encounter it I suppose: A feeling of utter helplessness.
‘So what do you do?’ a friend asked, as he shared the story of a 31-year-old step-niece who’s turning tricks to support her drug addiction.
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Tags: Addiction, Alcoholic, Binge drinking, Dry bones, Ezekiel, First Commandment, God Is Love, Greatest Commandment, Karl Rahner
Today’s find: Ends of the earth
It took almost 37 years, but we finally made our ‘honeymoon’ trip to Ireland this summer.
My dear wife teases me about that every once in a while: How long it took us (i.e., me) to get our act together and visit the land of her ancestors’ birth.
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Tags: Anniversary, County Donegal, Ireland, Malin Head, Marriage, Wedding Anniversary
Today’s find: Moonshot
We’re making a little progress, my brothers and I, in the effort to help our Mom downsize from the home of our youth. Yesterday, our clean-out day unearthed a front-page treasure that had been squirreled away in a steamer trunk for the past 47 years or so.
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Tags: Abraham, Apollo 11, Letter to the Hebrews, Moonshot, Neil Armstrong
Today’s find: Going for it
Standing over the shot last Saturday afternoon, I think I was feeling a little like Peter must have felt when Jesus told him to step out of the boat.
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Tags: 5-Iron, Bogey, Boone Valley Golf Club, Discipleship, Gospel of Matthew, Par, Walking on Water
Today’s find: Bulwark
Now here’s something I hadn’t heard in a LONG time: We sang ‘A Mighty Fortress’ as our recessional song at Mass today. I’ve long appreciated the lyrical imagery of the hymn, made all the more effective by its majestic melody.
Having just returned from one of the world’s most castellated regions, though, I couldn’t help but be struck by the irony of Martin Luther’s words.
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Tags: A Mighty Fortress, Bulwark, Colossians, Loch Ness, Martin Luther, Scotland, Trebuchet, Urquhart Castle
Today’s find: Ascent
It matters a lot, the direction from which you approach Mamore Gap on the Inishowen Peninsula in Ireland.
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Tags: Amazing Grace, Inishowen Peninsula, Ireland, John Newton, Lough Swilly, Mamore Gap, Mary Magdalene, St. Egney
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