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Reflection for Wednesday, April 5, 2017: 5th Week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2017-04-05)
As I sit to write this Reflection I can imagine that you, the reader/pray-er are hoping for something new and exciting. For my part I am wondering if this is possible. The disciples with whom Jesus is speaking, are not ...
Reflection for Wednesday, March 12, 2008: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-03-12)
The three young captives in Babylon face a fiery furnace, rather than worship a false god. | Jesus faces the fiery furnace of his people's and our arrogant defensiveness - while offering us freedom.|The folly of Lenten ...
Reflection for Wednesday, April 1, 2009: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-04-01)
I have always loved the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, which I learned as a youngster. The Statler Brothers used to sing a gospel song about this story, which contained this chorus:||They wouldn't bend They held ...
Reflection for Wednesday, March 24, 1999: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-03-24)
"When the heart is hard and parched up,| come upon me with a shower of mercy.||When grace is lost from life, |come with a burst of song.|When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides|shutting me out from the beyond,|come ...
Reflection for Wednesday, April 4, 2001: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-04-04)
Today happens to be my 40th birthday. This is the birthday when you start getting the over the hill jokes. I guess it's supposed to be middle-aged, but I come from pretty long-lived stock. I still have three grandparents ...
Reflection for Thursday, July 26, 2001: 16th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-07-26)
Why do you speak to them in parables?"||I remember as a young boy, asking Jesus this same question. Why is this stuff about "the meaning of life," that us kids were learning in grade school, so hard for everyone else to ...
Reflection for Thursday, July 26, 2007: 16th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-07-26)
Today's readings, for me, carry the reminders of how many ways God has been and can be revealed to us. The children of Israel encounter God as a palpable presence in the desert --a dense cloud with peals of thunder and ...
Reflection for Wednesday, April 5, 2006: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-04-05)
Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him: "If you live according to my teaching, you are truly my disciples; then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."||Freedom must be near the top of our top ten ...
Reflection for Wednesday, April 9, 2003: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-04-09)
Today's gospel narrative is puzzling in its development. The exchange is presented as stemming from a remark Jesus makes "to those Jews who believed in him," yet, as the argument evolves, Jesus is clearly addressing ...
Reflection for Wednesday, April 1, 2020: 5th Week of Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2020-04-01)
|The first reading calls to mind the times we've been living in the last weeks. Nothing like a burning oven image to think of the hot water myself and all of us have been thinking we are in. There is a lesson to be learned ...