We went in search of a little inspired teamwork, my best Billiken Buddy and I. We found a long-lost hearing aid instead.
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Today’s find: Hearing aid
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Tags: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Hearing Aid, SLU Billikens
Today’s find: Hope
“Well, this is weird,” I said to myself…because there was absolutely no one else in the room with me, watching a recent World Cup match on TV.
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Tags: Argentina, Hope, Isaiah, Second Sunday of Advent, SLU Billikens, World Cup 2022
Today’s find: Clear Bag Policy
There was an interesting “counter-flow” evident on the approaches to Chaifetz Arena, just ahead of the Billikens game last night.
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Tags: Apocalypse, Chaifetz Arena, Clear Bag Policy, EIU Panthers, SLU Billikens
Today’s find: HumbLent
The calendar said it was “Mardi Gras” as the Billlikens took to the court versus LaSalle last night. But all in all, Chaifetz Arena seemed to have more of an “Ash Wednesday” vibe going throughout the game.
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Tags: Ash Wednesday, Ashes, Billiken Basketball, Chaifetz Arena, COVID Pandemic, Lent 2021, SLU Billikens
Today’s find: Double-bye
A week ago, I had a really good feeling about my favorite college basketball team – the SLU Billikens.
Today’s find: Blowout
At times I wonder whether St. Catherine of Siena might not be an @SLU_Billikens fan.
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Tags: 1 Corinthians, Blowout, Catherine of Sienna, Chaifetz Arena, LaSalle Explorers, SLU Billikens, St. Paul
Today’s find: Pickled
As a rule, beets would not make my Top 10 list as I “choose my way through” a food buffet. But something about these beets seemed to be calling my name – perhaps because I’d been in-country less than 24 hours. “When in Galilee, do as the Galilleans,” I figured.
I had a lot to learn about local food, I discovered on Day 1 of our pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Starting with these “beets”… that turned out to be pickled figs.
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Tags: A-10 Tourney Champs, Fig, Fig tree, Lent, Lent 2019, Pickled fig, SLU basketball, SLU Billikens
Today’s find: Road trip
Well, at least one-in-five of us left happy. That would be my cousin’s son, Lucas, who watched his SIU Salukis put a whuppin’ on our SLU Billikens in Carbondale the other night.
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Tags: Advent, Carbondale, Marana tha!, Maranatha, Pinckneyville, Psalm 126, Road Trip, Second Sunday of Advent, SIU Salukis, SLU Billikens
Today’s find: The Dance
The question was reasonable enough: “Why do you put yourself through this?” a friend asked this morning, when he overheard me discussing last night’s SLU Billikens game with another friend as we exited church after early-morning Mass.
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Tags: Big Dance, Championship Week, College Basketball, Desire, Greatest Commandment, NCAA Tournament, SLU Billikens, Whole Heart, Whole Hearts
Today’s find: Do-over
We haven’t had much to cheer about this season…we fans of the SLU Men’s Basketball Billikens. Just three seasons removed from a conference championship, our guys have become the bottom-feeders in the Atlantic 10.
Adding insult to injury, the university’s athletic department ‘re-designed’ the team’s mascot this season—turning our beloved Billiken into something that was borderline demonic.
Last night though there was redemption of sorts.
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Tags: America magazine, James Martin S.J., New Billiken Mascot, SLU, SLU Billikens, The Wall
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John Schroeder
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