Posts Tagged With: Holy Week

Today’s find: Glory, fading

Posted on April 13, 2025 by John Schroeder

At last arrives the time for a personal “hosana” or two. Fortunately, it comes with a lesson.

Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: bible, christianity, Fading Glory, faith, Glory, God, Golf League, Holy Week, Hosana, Jesus, Palm Sunday, Passion According To Luke, Redemption, St. Joe Golf League, Trophy

Today’s find: Pre-Conciliar

Posted on March 24, 2024 by John Schroeder

Most of us, I realized as I looked around the room, remember a Church before Vatican II. A pre-Conciliar church.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Holy Week, Listening Session, Palm Sunday, Pre-Conciliar, Synod on Synodality, Vatican II

Today’s find: Preparations

Posted on April 5, 2023 by John Schroeder

In the pre-dawn gloom, I encountered a beacon of hope this morning: a trio of long-dark light fixtures illuminating the iconic bell tower at my parish once again.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Bell Tower, Holy Week, The Passion

Today’s find: STOP sign

Posted on April 2, 2023 by John Schroeder

Don’t know what it is with me and the setting sun, but lately it seems to be encouraging me to take a second look at things.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Holy Week, Palm Sunday, STOP Sign

Today’s find: Nipped in the bud

Posted on April 9, 2022 by John Schroeder

I’m really hoping it’s not too late.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Holy Week, Hydrangeas, Palm Sunday

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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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Holy Week, Holy Week 2021, Jerusalem, Memento Mori, St. Peter in Gallicantu, Tuesday of Holy Week

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: Hot Wheels

Posted on April 8, 2020 by John Schroeder

We waited until we knew the grandsons were napping this afternoon… before making a “socially distant” drop-off of Easter goodies on their front stoop.

Somehow, the cloak-and-dagger tactics seemed to fit the day.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Betrayal, Holy Week, Holy Week 2020, Hot Wheels, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Monster Truck, Spy Wednesday, Triduum

Today’s find: Provisioning

Posted on April 6, 2020 by John Schroeder

Covid-19 claimed another piece of normalcy today, and I felt the reverberations in my “lizard brain.”

It’s never good when that happens – when I sense that my “fight or flight” reflex has been activated. Oddly, the trigger in this case was a trip to the grocery store.

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