Something tells me Flannery O’Connor would have registered a complaint, had she been with us at Mass today.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Flannery
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Tags: Advent, Flannery O'Connor, Maranatha, Prophet, The Violent Bear It Away
Today’s find: Peek performance
Precious little Hannah may have met her match.
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Tags: Advent, Isaiah, Maranatha, Terracotta Warriors
Today’s find: Waiting
The prophet Isaiah’s pretty much got it right, I figure: It must all be God’s fault.
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Tags: Advent, Isaiah, Maranatha, Waiting
Today’s find: Thanksgiving
There are times when I wish God wasn’t quite so faithful in answering my prayers.
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Tags: Blessings, prodigal, Psalm 138, Psalm 51, Recuperation, Stitches, Surgery, Thanksgiving
Today’s find: Vision
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.
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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
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