I was about 20 minutes into the 25-year warranty on my brand-spanking-new half-moon edging spade…when the first crack appeared in the upper reaches of the blade.
‘Uh-oh,’ I thought. ‘This is not good.’
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Half-moon Edger
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Tags: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Grace, Half-moon edger, Hardware, Reconciliation, Sacrament of Anointing, sacraments
Today’s find: Bunches
A friend of mine kept bees once upon a time. And as we were chatting about his pastime, he mentioned a point that had never occurred to me before.
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Tags: Bees, Bunches, Grapes, I Am The Vine, Pruning, Vine, Vinegrower
Today’s find: Do-bees
Due to technical difficulties, I had a tough time hearing the first reading at Mass today.
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Tags: Colossians, Do-bee, May Day, Revolution, St. Joseph the Worker
Nihonga, Nicodemus and me
‘Word’ guy that I am, I sometimes find that the stories artists tell are more engaging than the works they create.
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Tags: Easter Visit, Makoto Fujimura, Nicodemus, Nihonga
Today’s find: Twin
So the other afternoon, the guy at the sandwich shop says to me, ‘Anybody ever tell you…you look like Tom Brokaw?’
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Tags: Bob Forsch, Didymus, Divine Mercy Sunday, Doubting Thomas, John Denver, Tom Brokaw
Today’s find: Proper channels
Ever notice how some people just won’t listen?
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Tags: Divine Mercy Sunday, Easter Saturday, Proper Channels, Resurrection, Walter Brueggemann
Today’s find: Patient trust
Sometimes, it pays to procrastinate a bit.
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Today’s find: Witness
There are no bystanders at the Easter Vigil. Like the new fire itself, we all tend to become ‘fully involved.’
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Tags: Alpha and Omega, Baptism, Easter, Easter Vigil, Easter Witness
Today’s find: Golgotha
All is quiet on Golgotha.
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Tags: Golgotha, Good Friday, Triduum
Today’s find: Bread of affliction
There’s just one Mass celebrated at our parish today, and that’s a rarity: Even on weekdays, we’ve long been blessed to have our choice of times for the faithful to gather at the Lord’s table — 6:30 or 8:30 AM.
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Tags: Bread of Affliction, Eucharist, Holy Thursday, Mass Of The Lord's Supper, Triduum
With Us Still 