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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Today’s find: Nipped in the bud
I’m really hoping it’s not too late.
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Tags: Holy Week, Hydrangeas, Palm Sunday
Today’s find: Palms, becalmed
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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Tags: Covid-19, Holy City, Holy Week, Hosanna, Jerusalem, Lamina, Old City Jerusalem, Palm frond, Palm Sunday, Passion Sunday
Today’s find: Via Dolorosa
Luke includes an intriguing footnote to his version of the Passion story: “All his acquaintances stood at distance,” the evangelist says (Luke 23:49). And no doubt, this is part of the reason I’ve always tended to think of Jesus’ final journey as a LONELY one.
What a shock, then, to experience early last month the hustle-and-bustle of praying the Stations along the Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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Today’s find: Struggle
Springtime seems to be struggling a bit. It’s not catching on, not quite yet, in our part of the country.
But if you look closely, you can find the barest hint of the spectacle to come.
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Tags: Holy Week, kenosis, Lent 2018, Palm Sunday, Passion Sunday, Spring blooms, Springtime, Struggle, Surrender
Today’s find: Wounded & Sanctified
Daniel desires with all his heart to be free of the cell in which he is today imprisoned. He’s done hard time, more than a decade behind bars. He’s learned his lesson.
Or maybe it’s “lessons.”
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Tags: Kairos Prison Ministry, Menard Correctional Center, Palm Sunday, Passion Sunday, Sanctified, Thomas Brooks, Wounded
Today’s find: Forlorn
It looked a little forlorn, the “theme” banner from our just-completed ACTS retreat, when I got to church this morning.
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Today’s find: Advance party
Sometimes, the things Jesus asks of his disciples are not so much heroic as they are…odd.
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Tags: Holy Week, Palm Sunday, Passion of Christ, Sacrament of Anointing
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John Schroeder
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