Posts Tagged With: Kairos Prison Ministry

Today’s find: Obscure faith

Posted on February 26, 2017 by John Schroeder

We lose something important, it seems to me, when we learn to stand up and walk and talk.

Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Infant, Isaiah 49, Jeannie Ewing, Kairos Prison Ministry, Obscure faith, shame

Today’s find: Shining light

Posted on February 4, 2017 by John Schroeder

Some might say this candle of ours has seen better days.

At the very least, it’s seen a LOT of days…

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: ACTS Retreats, Beatitudes, Catholic Radio, Faith sharing group, Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Gospel of Matthew, Isaiah, Kairos Prison Ministry, Light of the world, RATI, RCIA, Shining light, Stephen Ministry, SVdP

Today’s find: Unbound

Posted on October 25, 2016 by John Schroeder

What do you think she noticed first, the woman who for 18 years had been ‘bent over, completely incapable of standing erect’? What did she see…as she straightened her spine and looked into the eyes of the One who had just cured her infirmity?

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Crippled Woman, Gospel of Luke, Kairos Prison Ministry

Today’s find: Immersed

Posted on October 20, 2016 by John Schroeder

Grandson Francis and I have at least this much in common: We know when we’re surrounded by love.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Cookies For Kairos, Ephesians, Grandson, Immersion, Kairos Prison Ministry

Today’s find: Squadron

Posted on August 28, 2016 by John Schroeder

I could hear the piston engines – their menacing murmur – long before I actually saw the planes the other evening.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Battering ram, Biplane, Biplane Squadron, Biplanes, Gates of Hell, Gospel of Luke, Kairos Prison Ministry, Menard, Menard Correctional Center

Today’s find: Ruach

Posted on March 13, 2016 by John Schroeder

He’s called an “offender” in the common parlance of the prison administration, but I encountered Ted as more of a “teacher” yesterday.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Fifth Sunday of Lent, Gospel of John, Kairos, Kairos Prison Ministry, Ruach, Ruah, Woman Caught In Adultery

Today’s find: O Key of David

Posted on December 20, 2015 by John Schroeder

For those in prison…and for those imprisoned by any deadly sins in their lives…we look with hope and expectation toward Jesus, the Key of David…in the fourth O Antiphon that’s prayed during these final days of Advent:

O Key of David,
opening the gates of God’s eternal Kingdom:
come and free the prisoners of darkness!

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