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Today’s find: Haunted

Posted on March 30, 2021 by John Schroeder

“It was night,” writes the Evangelist in the gospel passage we hear on Tuesday of Holy Week.

I am haunted by that night.

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Today’s find: Heavens

Posted on March 28, 2021 by John Schroeder

A fair sky gave good account of its vastness the other evening.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Cirrocumulus, Heavens, Holy Week, Holy Week 2021, Memento Mori, Self-reliance, Sin, St. Peter

Today’s find: Solemnity

Posted on March 25, 2021 by John Schroeder

As Roman Catholics around the world celebrate the great feast of the Annunciation today, I am reminded of the visit we made on pilgrimage to the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth two years ago…

Here’s a link to some reflections and photos I posted at that time:

Today’s find: Holy rubble

And I am moved, also, today…to pray for the Christians who now live in Nazareth, and in all areas of the world where it is difficult to BE a Christian — on a feast day, or any other day of the week.

Let us remember that we are in the presence of the Holy & Merciful One.

IHS

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Today’s find: Seeking wellness

Posted on March 18, 2021 by John Schroeder

The COVID vaccine tends to make beggars of us all – at least in my state of residence, and in my age-bracket.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Covid vaccine, Covid-19, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lent 2021, Memento Mori, Pfizer vaccine, Seeking wellness

Today’s find: Kite-flying

Posted on March 13, 2021 by John Schroeder

I wasn’t at the end of my rope [or string] the other day. Not even close. This, even though the environment for kite-flying seemed ideal – a brisk steady breeze, punctuated by the occasional muscular gust.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Ephesians, Fourth Sunday of Lent, Grace, Kite, Kite Tail, Kite-flying, Soaring

Today’s find: Unclogging

Posted on March 6, 2021 by John Schroeder

Patience is a virtue, they say. But apparently NOT when one is waiting for a bathroom sink to drain.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Cleansing of the Temple, Lent 2021, Plumbing, Third Sunday in Lent, Third Sunday of Lent, Unclog, Unclogged, Unclogging

Today’s find: Jerome

Posted on March 2, 2021 by John Schroeder

Meditating on the apostles’ mountaintop experience, I keep finding myself being drawn underground – to the writing grotto of St. Jerome in Bethlehem.

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Today’s find: Driven

Posted on February 20, 2021 by John Schroeder

A couple of times over the past 10 years, I have been “driven out into the desert.”

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Today’s find: HumbLent

Posted on February 17, 2021 by John Schroeder

The calendar said it was “Mardi Gras” as the Billlikens took to the court versus LaSalle last night. But all in all, Chaifetz Arena seemed to have more of an “Ash Wednesday” vibe going throughout the game.

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