Posts Tagged With: Emmanuel

Today’s find: Crew-cut

Posted on December 1, 2024 by John Schroeder

Our slender tender hydrangea tree has taken a beating in recent days.

Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Advent, Anxiety, Emmanuel, First Sunday of Advent, fresh snow, Hydrangea tree, snowfall

Today’s find: Holy night, by starlight

Posted on December 24, 2023 by John Schroeder

Ever notice?

This time of year, the stars seem especially bright.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Christmas, Emmanuel, God With Us, Incarnation, Star of Christmas, Yuletide

Today’s find: Galilee Guy

Posted on March 19, 2019 by John Schroeder

Just about every day, I drive along “St. Joseph Lane”…on the way to encountering my Lord in the Eucharist at daily Mass.

Our recent trip to the Holy Land gave me the chance to saunter along the “real” St. Joseph Lane…and in doing so, to encounter a delightful new dimension in my relationship with this Emmanuel, God-who-walks-among-us.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Emmanuel, Feast of St. Joseph, Galilee, Galilee Guy, Palestine, Sepphoris, Solemnity of St. Joseph, St. Joseph, St. Joseph Manchester

Today’s Find: The Star of Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2015 by John Schroeder

This time of year, the stars seem especially bright.

It’s almost as if the sky is clearer…and the heavens are closer to earth… than they are in the summertime.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Christmas, Christmas Star, Emmanuel, Merry Christmas, Nativity

Today’s find: O Emmanuel – God Is With Us!

Posted on December 23, 2015 by John Schroeder

Our wait nearly over, our hearts are filled with joy as we pray the last of the O Antiphons:

O Emmanuel, our King, and Giver of Law:
come to save us, Lord our God!

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Advent, Emmanuel, O Antiphons, O Emmanuel

Today’s find: Leaper

Posted on December 21, 2015 by John Schroeder

Twice in two days, the Lectionary has given us the Visitation story from Luke’s gospel as our daily bread from scripture at Mass. So, what’s my response: to rush right through the all-too-familiar tale?

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Advent, Emmanuel, Hypostatic Union, Luke, Matthew, Visitation

Today’s find: Fullness

Posted on December 31, 2014 by John Schroeder

‘Children, it is the last hour,’ writes St. John in the passage we heard from his first letter at Mass today. Apropos, to say the least, on this final day of 2014. But it was the Gospel reading—also from John—that really caught my attention this morning: To my ear, at least, a pitch-perfect summary of the season…and the year we are about to conclude.

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