Posts Tagged With: Jesus

Today’s find: Patterns

Posted on February 23, 2025 by John Schroeder

It was my Sweetie, the artist, who pointed it out – how the smooth blanket of snow on our deck had morphed into something new, something a bit more interesting.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Beatitudes, bible, christianity, faith, Forgiveness, God, Gospel of Luke, Jesus, Patterns, Sermon on the Plain, Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Snow blanket

Today’s find: Hanging question

Posted on February 18, 2025 by John Schroeder

Puzzled we were, the 6:30 Daily Mass Coffee Boys. Bumfuzzled, and therefore apparently in good company.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 6:30 Daily Mass, bible, christianity, Daily Bread, Daily Mass, Eucharist, faith, God, Hanging Question, Jesus, Miracle of the Loaves, Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Today’s find: Excess

Posted on February 9, 2025 by John Schroeder

Heard there’s a big game today, so I think I’ll make a double-batch.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: bible, Call of Peter, faith, Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, God, Gospel of Luke, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Super Bowl, Super Bowl LIX, Super Sunday, Wetiko

Today’s find: Back-door welcome

Posted on February 2, 2025 by John Schroeder

The entrance didn’t exactly exude “fellowship.”

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Anna, bible, faith, Feast of the Presentation, Gospel of Luke, Hope, Jesus, Kairos Menard #23, Kairos Prison Ministry, Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Simeon

Today’s find: Fog of family

Posted on December 29, 2024 by John Schroeder

Was Mary – the Blessed Mother – an irresponsible parent?

Such was the notion I heard expressed on Saturday morn, at our regular weekly scripture study.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: bible, Christmas, faith, Fog, Fog of family, Gaza, Gospel of Luke, Holy Family, Irresponsible, Jesus, Mary, Time

Today’s find: Silly songs

Posted on December 24, 2024 by John Schroeder

A pair of Energetic Elves stopped by on Christmas Eve-eve … to lend a hand with one last round of cookie-baking.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Christmas, Christmas Carols, Christmas Cookies, Christmas Eve, Christmas songs, faith, God, Jesus, poetry, Silly songs, Yuletide

Today’s find: Making room

Posted on December 22, 2024 by John Schroeder

Things got a little tight in our family room yesterday.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Advent, Christmas, Christmas Cookies, Cookie Exchange, Eucharist, faith, Fourth Week of Advent, God, Jesus, John the Baptist, Making room, Visitation

Today’s find: Gloom, dispelled

Posted on December 15, 2024 by John Schroeder

It wasn’t a “driving” rain exactly. More like “steady,” the winds mercifully silent as we made our wet way along Front Street for the four-minute walk from the prison’s entry house to the chapel deep inside the grounds yesterday.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Advent, Advent 2024, bible, faith, Gaudete Sunday, God, Jesus, Joy, Kairos Prison Ministry, Menard Correctional Center, Prophet Isaiah

Today’s find: The Star of Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2018 by John Schroeder

Ever notice? 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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