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Today’s find: James Martin SJ

Posted on February 26, 2019 by John Schroeder

Our pilgrimage leader bumped into an old friend today…atop the Mount of Beatitudes — best-selling author James Martin SJ.

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Today’s find: Druze food

Posted on February 26, 2019 by John Schroeder

We broke bread with a Druze gentleman at lunchtime, and we were blessed indeed. Continue reading →

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Today’s find: Citrus

Posted on February 25, 2019 by John Schroeder

Our pilgrim bus passed an orange truck on Highway 6, headed north from Tel Aviv on Sunday. Continue reading →

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Today’s find: Lofty

Posted on February 23, 2019 by John Schroeder

Praying with Ps 139, as we arrive in Chicago… Continue reading →

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Today’s find: Gait

Posted on February 21, 2019 by John Schroeder

A certain two-and-a-half-year-old of my acquaintance found a new way to delight this ol’ graybeard the other day.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Caeserea Philippi, gait, Galilee, Holy Land, Pilgrimage, self-assurance

Today’s find: Obvious

Posted on February 10, 2019 by John Schroeder

Wandering into – and through – the mission field: It’s not an exercise meant to boost self-confidence, I’ve decided. (An insight, perhaps, that qualifies me for a DMO degree – Divine Master of the Obvious).

Or perhaps it’s not obvious at all. For we are treated this week to a front row seat, as three separate scriptural characters stumble upon a seemingly simple tidbit of self-awareness.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Divine Master of the Obvious, DMO, Holy Haul, Isaiah, Michael Card, Mission Field, Obvious, St. Paul, St. Peter, Things We Leave Behind

Today’s find: Unencumbered envoys

Posted on February 8, 2019 by John Schroeder

I was a witness this week to technical difficulties that nearly derailed not one…but two different presentations on missionary spirituality.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: DeSmet Jesuit High School, Envoy, Jesuits, Menard, Pierre DeSmet, Unencumbered Envoy, Visitation Academy

Today’s find: Vortex

Posted on January 30, 2019 by John Schroeder

It was bracing, to say the least, when I checked the “Outside Temp” reading on our home thermostat in the pre-dawn hours this morning. (-1) it said. Then I got in the car…and watched, with bemusement, as the mercury dipped lower and lower throughout my short jaunt up the road.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Alpha and Omega, Arctic Blast, Frigid Temps, Polar Vortex

Today’s find: G-G-G

Posted on January 26, 2019 by John Schroeder

In our immediate circle, she has in recent years become known as “G-G-G” – Great-Grandma Georgia. Many more know and love her by other names: “Aunt Georgia,” “Georgia,” “Mom.”

She is beloved, seemingly by all. Even so, in her 92^nd year, G-G-G can delight and surprise her second-born son…a guy who’s known her for nearly 62 years.

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