Posts Tagged With: Palm Sunday

Today’s find: Lift-off

Posted on March 29, 2026 by John Schroeder

There’s something remarkably humbling about encountering the souvenirs of a moonshot.

Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Apollo 13, Apollo Moon Missions, bible, christianity, faith, God, Gospel of Matthew, Holy Week, Houston, Jesus, Lift-off, Moonshot, NASA Space Center, Palm Sunday, Paul's letter to the Philippians, Philippians 2, Saturn V, Saving Victim

Today’s find: Glory, fading

Posted on April 13, 2025 by John Schroeder

At last arrives the time for a personal “hosana” or two. Fortunately, it comes with a lesson.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: bible, christianity, Fading Glory, faith, Glory, God, Golf League, Holy Week, Hosana, Jesus, Palm Sunday, Passion According To Luke, Redemption, St. Joe Golf League, Trophy

Today’s find: Pre-Conciliar

Posted on March 24, 2024 by John Schroeder

Most of us, I realized as I looked around the room, remember a Church before Vatican II. A pre-Conciliar church.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Holy Week, Listening Session, Palm Sunday, Pre-Conciliar, Synod on Synodality, Vatican II

Today’s find: STOP sign

Posted on April 2, 2023 by John Schroeder

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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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Holy Week, Palm Sunday, STOP Sign

Today’s find: Nipped in the bud

Posted on April 9, 2022 by John Schroeder

I’m really hoping it’s not too late.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Holy Week, Hydrangeas, Palm Sunday

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: Via Dolorosa

Posted on April 13, 2019 by John Schroeder

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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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Old City Jerusalem, Palm Sunday, Passion According To Luke, Passion Sunday, Stations of the Cross, Via Dolorosa

Today’s find: Struggle

Posted on March 24, 2018 by John Schroeder

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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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Holy Week, kenosis, Lent 2018, Palm Sunday, Passion Sunday, Spring blooms, Springtime, Struggle, Surrender

Today’s find: Wounded & Sanctified

Posted on April 9, 2017 by John Schroeder

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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