Ever seen a lamb with seven horns and seven eyes? Or how about a lion-like beast sporting six wings, and covered with eyes inside and out?
Yeah, me neither.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Vision
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Tags: Apocalypse, Christ The King, Cracked Jug, Revelation, Spiritual Blindness, Vision
Today’s find: Chillin’
The heat didn’t kick on overnight, so things were a bit chilly in church this morning – a reminder that our almost-40-year-old building is showing some unmistakable signs of age. Somehow, the discomfort we felt – we ‘6:30 Mass regulars’ – seemed oddly appropriate as we near the end of the liturgical year.
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Tags: Chillin', Dystopian, LambOfGod, Lion of Judah, Revelation
Today’s find: Balancing act
My beloved SLU Billikens opened the men’s basketball season with a nail-biter of a win on Saturday night, but it was actually the half-time entertainment that wound up bringing the most fervent prayer to our lips.
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Tags: Cristin Sandu, First Steps, Five Talents, Parable of the Talents, SLU Billikens, Two Talents
Today’s find: Bright lights
We were billed as “The Almost Never Quite Ready for Anytime Players”…and it’s safe to say our amateur troupe lived up to its less-than-stellar promotional designation.
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Tags: Bright Lights, Creation, Dinner Theater, St. Joe's Manchester, The Word
Today’s find: Precious jewel
Austria is the place to go, I’m told, if you want to see some of Christendom’s greatest treasures—treasures like a splinter from the cross upon which Jesus hung; one of the nails that pierced his flesh; and a thorn from the crown that mocked his reign.
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Tags: Austrian Crown Jewels, Crown jewels, Eucharist, Holy Roman Emperor, Lateran Basilica, St. John Lateran Basilica
Today’s find: Among the saints
I am scheduled to die on Saturday night.
Or more precisely, the character I play in an upcoming mystery theater production will be murdered (thankfully, off-stage. No dramatic ‘death scene’ for me!)
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Tags: All Saints, All Souls, Body of Christ, Unbreakable Streak
Today’s find: Chump change
This much I know: I absolutely HATE being ‘chumped.’
In my book, it’s the unforgiveable sin—for someone to take advantage of my good nature, or to fail to take a matter as seriously as I do.
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Tags: Chump change, Defect of Character, Forgiveness, Kairos Prison Ministry
Today’s find: Hard time
I’ll admit it: I’m a bit of a wimp. And there’s something about visiting men inside a maximum security prison which tends to remind me of that fact.
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Tags: Hard time, Kairos Prison Ministry, KPMI, Menard, Menard Correctional Center, Real Presence
Today’s find: Cookies & community
It never ceases to amaze (and bless) me — to see 10,000 homemade cookies in one place.
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Tags: Cookies For Kairos, Kairos Cookies, Kairos Prison Ministry, Loaves and fishes
Today’s find: Promises, promises
Chosen. Treasured. Empowered. According to St. Paul, that’s how Christians ought to feel when we walk in God’s grace.
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Tags: Ephesians, Ignatius of Antioch, Promises, Sparrows
With Us Still 