It takes a fair amount of power to wash away 50 years’ worth of grime.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Encrusted
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Tags: 1 Kings, 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 4000 PSI, Brotherly love, Elisha, Gospel of Matthew, Kingdom of God, loyalty, Power Washer
Today’s find: Mantle
Our son Chris marks the second anniversary of his ordination today. And to celebrate, he’s moving from Kansas City to Dallas…where he’ll begin a brand new ministry at a Jesuit retreat center.
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Tags: 2 Kings, Elijah, Elisha, Jesuit Ordinations, Mantle, Ordination, Religious vocation, Vocations
Today’s find: Mercy, anon
It’s left me puzzled since mid-week: Who tucked a $5 bill under my windshield wiper in the parking lot outside the local Breadco the other day? And why?
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Tags: 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Luke, Mercy, Shakespeare in the Park
Today’s find: Super-sub
Perhaps the feast day simply snuck up on us. Whatever the reason, we experienced a Lectionary malfunction at the early Mass today. The page was set to a Friday in Ordinary time—not to the readings prescribed for the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus –and our lector initially began proclaiming a passage from 2 Timothy, instead of Ezekiel.
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Tags: Ezekiel, Give Us This Day, Good Shepherd, Lectionary, Romans 5, Sacred Heart, Sacred Heart of Jesus
Today’s find: Picked clean
Working meat off the bones of a rotisserie chicken became something of a sacramental experience for me the other day.
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Tags: Corpus Christi, Eucharist, Hunger, Loaves and fishes, Rotisserie Chicken, Sequence, St. THomas Aquinas
Today’s find: Out of time
For a number of reasons, we’re a bit behind schedule in tending to our backyard flower garden this spring. Normally, we’d have a variety of bedding plants selected and planted by late May. This year…well, let’s just say the trip to the nursery is still on our to-do list.
And yet, despite our thoroughgoing neglect, the unkempt plot is already yielding a bit of beauty: a few Sweet William blossoms poking through.
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Tags: Holy Trinity, Proverbs, Psalm 8, Spring Blossoms, Sweet Williams, Time travel
Today’s find: Feelin’ it…
We prayed portions of Psalm 103 at Mass on Friday morning, and I have to say, I was really feelin’ it…
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Tags: Aberdeen Golf Club, Golf, Golf League, Psalm 103, re-creation, Redemption
Today’s find: On the Mark
The ferocity of a recent spring storm toppled two of the four chairs on our deck. Twenty-four hours later, the duo remained askew—prompting Gerri to observe that her dear husband must have absolutely zero interest in home improvement.
“But two of the chairs remain upright,” I protested. “So that’s about right…I’m at least half-way concerned…”
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Tags: deck chairs, Discipleship, Gospel of Mark, home improvement, ineptitude, Spring storms
Today’s find: Pentecost / Paschal Meditation
Pentecost looms. Which means it’s been 50 days since I heard the words uttered near the beginning of the Easter Vigil Mass…and still, I can’t get them out of my mind.
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Tags: Christ Redeemer, Cristo Redentor, Easter Season, Easter Vigil, Jubliee of Mercy, Paschal Mystery, Pentecost, Year of Mercy
With Us Still 