Posts Tagged With: Jerusalem

Today’s find: Cacophony

Posted on April 18, 2025 by John Schroeder

There’s nothing sacred about a crucifixion.

Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: bible, Cacophony, christianity, Crucifixion, faith, God, Golgotha, Good Friday, Isaiah, Isaiah 52, Isaiah 53, Jerusalem, Jesus, Old City Jerusalem, Via Dolorosa, Way of the Cross

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: Seeking a quiet place

Posted on April 9, 2020 by John Schroeder

And so it begins, this most unusual of Triduum celebrations.

What I notice mostly is this: All of my “Holy Week” rhythms are “off” – completely out of whack.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Agony in the garden, Covid-19, Garden of Gethsemane, Holy Thursday, Holy Thursday 2020, Jerusalem

Today’s find: Palms, becalmed

Posted on April 4, 2020 by John Schroeder

Got my alarm set for Sunday morning, so that I can take advantage of the “drive-thru distribution” of blessed palms up at the parish.

And thus begins the oddest Holy Week I have ever experienced.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Covid-19, Holy City, Holy Week, Hosanna, Jerusalem, Lamina, Old City Jerusalem, Palm frond, Palm Sunday, Passion Sunday

Today’s find: Prized consolation

Posted on November 17, 2019 by John Schroeder

Say what you will, but Jesus certainly had this call correct:

While some people were speaking about how the temple was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings, Jesus said, “All that you see here – the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.”

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Divinization, Gospel of Luke, Herod's Temple, Jerusalem, Old City Jerusalem, Second Temple, St. Athanasius

Today’s find: No show

Posted on July 19, 2019 by John Schroeder

‘You got it all wrong.’

This uncomfortable notion turned out to be my main take-away (and perhaps the greatest blessing) of our visit a few months back to the Tel Arad National Park in Israel.

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