Sometimes, I wonder: Did Jesus ever just have a bad day? Or simply an especially tiring one?
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Crowd-sourced sanctity
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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
Today’s find: Epiphany gifts
Granddaughter Hannah celebrates her third birthday this weekend—perfect timing, as it happens, for her Gramps to ponder the great blessings she has conferred upon him since making her debut.
It’s not that becoming a grandfather has made me a Wise Man, exactly. But it has offered myriad opportunities to gaze upon the world in a richer, more satisfying way.
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Tags: Epiphany, Epiphany Gifts, Gift of the Magi, God of Surprises, Gramps, Magi, Wise Men
Today’s find: Auld Lang Syne
On the final day of 2016, John has some intriguing words to share with his readers.
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Tags: Alpha, Alpha and Omega, Auld Lang Syne, Happy 2017, Happy New Year, Happy New Year 2017, John the Evangelist, Omega
Today’s find: The Star of Christmas
Ever notice? This time of year, the stars seem especially bright. It’s almost as if the sky is clearer…and the heavens are closer to earth… than they are in the summertime.
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Tags: Bernadette Farrell, Christmas, Christmas Star, Feliz Navidad, God Beyond All Names, Incarnation, Merry Christmas, Noel
Today’s find: O Emmanuel
O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, the Expected of the nations and their
Savior. Come and save us, O Lord our God.
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Tags: Advent, Advent 2016, O Antiphons, O Emmanuel
Today’s find: O King of the Gentiles
O King of the Gentiles and the Desired of all, you are the cornerstone that binds two into one. Come, and save man whom you fashioned out of clay.
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Tags: Advent, Advent 2016, O Antiphons, O Desired of All, O King of the Gentiles
