Our dogwoods are in full bloom this week. And that means different things, on different trees.
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Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Dogwoods
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Tags: Dogwood, Gerard Manley Hopkins, I Am The Vine, Spring, Taproot, Vine
Today’s find: Lock-down.
It was an other-worldly experience, getting through Security at a client’s corporate campus yesterday.
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Tags: ACTS Retreats, Kairos Prison Ministry, Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen, Paul Robeson
Today’s find: Prophets
Have you ever met a real, live prophet? I did, just a little over a decade ago.
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Tags: ACTS Missions, ACTS Missions St. Louis, ACTS Retreats, Prophet, Prophets
Today’s find: A Great Amen.
A friend once remarked, ‘When you go to Mass every day, you see things you don’t see every day.’
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Tags: David Kauffman, Doxology, Good for the Soul Music, Great Amen, Mass of Renewal, Scott Hahn, The Lamb's Supper, William Gokelman
Today’s find: Scattered
A spring storm scattered hundreds of immature seed pods across my driveway today–an untidy intrusion, courtesy of a neighbor’s tree down the street.
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Tags: Acts of the Apostles, Judea, prodigal, Samaria, scatter, scattered, seed pods, Six Sigma Black Belt, Spring storms
Today’s find: Embracing the ‘other pole.’
It was as mad as I can ever remember getting at God.
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Tags: Bipolar disorder, Ecclesiastes
Today’s find: Dog people and fishermen
Sometimes I wonder what the heck’s the matter with me.
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Tags: Chorkie, Fishermen, Grow St. Joe Dinner Auction, Petland, Solomon, wisdom of Solomon
Today’s find: Breaking bread
Yesterday was ‘food day’ at golf league – one of several times during the season that we finish off our matches with a simple meal and some fellowship. It turned into something of a salvific event for me – a chance to take the edge off an otherwise horrific round.
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Tags: Aberdeen Golf Club, Breaking bread, Caryll Houselander, Communion, Eucharist, St. Joe Golf League, The Risen Christ
Today’s find: The Divine Milieu
By the time I first encountered Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in the late 1970s, he was relatively famous—at least in spirituality circles.
He’s been something of a hero to me since I’ve been old enough to think – and wonder – for myself. Long before I’d ever heard of quantum physics or the Theory of Everything, Teilhard’s words had a way of opening my mind to cosmic possibilities. ‘Here’s a guy,’ I thought, ‘who can see deep into things.’
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Tags: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin S.J., Quantum Physics, Teilhard, The Divine Milieu, Theory of Everything
Today’s find: Yes! Monday!
Most years, the church celebrates the solemnity of the Annunciation – the feast commemorating Mary’s ‘yes!’ – on March 25. This year, because that date fell during Holy Week – the celebration was moved to today, April 8.
And isn’t it perfect that it falls on a Monday.
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Tags: Annunciation, Blessed Virgin, Easter, Gabriel, Mary, Mother of God, Solemnity, To-Do List
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