Posts Tagged With: Lent

Today’s find: Salad Days

Posted on February 16, 2018 by John Schroeder

It took a bit more effort to whip up my lunch today – and the irony was not lost on me.

Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Abstinence, Fasting, Fasting and Abstinence, Lent, Lent 2018, Mortification, Salad Days, Tuna, Tuna Salad

Today’s find: Conviction

Posted on March 26, 2017 by John Schroeder

I heard the strangest story yesterday; and I was intrigued by how close it struck to home.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Conversion, Conviction, Kairos Prison Ministry, Laetare Sunday, Lent, Lent 2017, Man born blind, metanoia

Today’s find: Everyday wonders

Posted on March 14, 2017 by John Schroeder

The blizzard battering the northeast today certainly had a far different look-and-feel in our neck of the woods.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Beauty, Blizzard, Everyday Wonders, Idaya Nallidaya, Jesus Is... Concert, Lent, Lent 2017, Malayalam, Psalm 9

Today’s find: Testification

Posted on March 12, 2017 by John Schroeder

My encounters with praise music on Saturday were a decidedly mixed bag.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Christian hip-hop, Christian rap, Crowder Band, Jesus Is..., Kairos Prison Ministry, Lent, Lent 2017, Shai Linne, Testify, Transfiguration

Today’s find: Picture-perfect

Posted on March 4, 2017 by John Schroeder

I did not spend forty days at Slieve League (‘Gray Mountain’) – more like forty minutes. But the temptation to get frustrated was real.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: chutzpah, Ireland, Lent, Lent 2017, Prince of Darkness, Slieve League, Temptations of Christ, The Nylons, Wild Atlantic Way

Today’s find: Fry-day

Posted on March 3, 2017 by John Schroeder

The first Friday in Lent…and “communal abstinence” is breaking out all over.

The season of Parish Fish Fries has begun!

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Abstinence, Almsgiving, Daughters of St. Paul, Fasting, Fish Fries, Fish Fry, Isaiah, Kairos Prison Ministry, Lent, Lent 2017, Lenten Practices, Pauline Books & Media

Today’s find: Less of me

Posted on March 1, 2017 by John Schroeder

There’s a vile connection, I’ve noticed, between a certain pair of digital read-outs that are part of my daily routine.

Or perhaps it’s a ‘vital’ connection.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Ash Wednesday, Bathroom scale, Lent, Lenten Practices, Psalm 51, Steadfast spirit, Steadfast Spirit 2013, treadmill

Today’s find: Stirrin’ up the water

Posted on March 8, 2016 by John Schroeder

A field hospital after battle: that’s the image today’s gospel brought to mind for me.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Body of Christ, Field Hospital, Gospel of John, Lent, Lent 2016, Peter Mayer, Pool of Bethesda, Pope Francis, Stirrin' up the Water

Today’s find: Digestion

Posted on February 17, 2016 by John Schroeder

We heard “Act Two” from the story of the prophet Jonah at Mass today – a tale that inevitably reminds me of “Act One”…in which the reluctant missionary finds himself residing in the belly of a whale.

Maybe it’s because I’ve reached the stage in life when such things can no longer be taken for granted, but I’ve long thought that a balky digestive system is an overlooked grace in Jonah’s life.

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