Holy Week eventually renders the Church speechless before the cross on Good Friday, says Fr. Guerric DeBona, OSB.
In the end, the cross will trump all our words.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Wondrous love
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Tags: Crucifixion, Good Friday, Passion of Christ, Wondrous Love
Today’s find: Liturgy
If you’re debating whether to head to church this evening, I have just two words for you: ‘Please go.’
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Tags: Coptic Martyrs, Holy Thursday, Liturgy, Mass Of The Lord's Supper, Triduum
Today’s find: Breaking trust
Treachery permeates the liturgy in these final days and hours of our Lenten journey.
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Tags: Betrayal, Betrayal Wednesday, Holy Week, Jubilee Year of Mercy, Judas, Judas Iscariot
Today’s find: Forlorn
It looked a little forlorn, the “theme” banner from our just-completed ACTS retreat, when I got to church this morning.
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Tags: ACTS Retreats, Aroma therapy, Holy Week, Nard, Palm Sunday, Spikenard
Today’s find: Holy day
Can it really be a year since Brother Marvin died?
…Since he became, as one of his fellow Christian Brothers put it, “Saint Marvin of Glencoe”?
And blessing of blessings: here I am today, back on holy ground: on retreat this weekend…
…remembering the man who did so much to make this ground “holy”…
https://withusstill.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/todays-find-shining-light/
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Today’s find: Ruach
He’s called an “offender” in the common parlance of the prison administration, but I encountered Ted as more of a “teacher” yesterday.
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Tags: Fifth Sunday of Lent, Gospel of John, Kairos, Kairos Prison Ministry, Ruach, Ruah, Woman Caught In Adultery
Today’s find: Teaching moment
I felt a little helpless, watching as the coach explained why he’d been cashiered.
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Tags: Gospel of John, Jim Crews, Lent 2016, SLU Billikens, Teaching moment, Wisdom
Today’s find: Stirrin’ up the water
A field hospital after battle: that’s the image today’s gospel brought to mind for me.
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Tags: Body of Christ, Field Hospital, Gospel of John, Lent, Lent 2016, Peter Mayer, Pool of Bethesda, Pope Francis, Stirrin' up the Water
Today’s find: Hastening
I noted with delight that there’s a bit of ‘hastening’ going on this week, as we gather to celebrate the Fourth Sunday of Lent.
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Tags: At The Table, Fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday, Luke 15, Prodigal Father, Prodigal Son, When God Ran
Today’s find: Assyria, Trump, Hillary & Campion
The Cardinal Archbishop of Toronto took me to task last evening – with an able assist from the prophet Hosea at this morning’s Mass.
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Tags: Apocalypse, Campion, Edmund Campion, Hillary, SLU, Trump
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