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Reflection for Monday September 30, 2019: 26th Week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2019-09-30)
She doesn't care about what I've accomplished. She doesn't care about all of the "important" and "great" things I do. Juniper is the three-and-half-year-old daughter of close friends and her only desire is that I am truly ...
Reflection for Monday, September 28, 2015: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-09-28)
I see two powerful statements in today's reading from Luke. First, there is the argument among the disciples about who is the greatest. We can imagine that the character of this debate probably focused on the things we ...
Reflection for Monday, October 2, 2017: 26th Week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2017-10-02)
|I have hit the age when many of my peers are starting families. In the last year or so, eight of the couples in my close-friends-and-family community have welcomed newborn children. Six of those couples welcomed their ...
Reflection for Monday, September 26, 2005: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-09-26)
"Father, you are holy indeed and all creation rightly gives you praise.|All life, all holiness comes from you so that from the rising of the sun to its setting a perfect |offering may be made to the glory of your name." ...
Reflection for Monday, September 28, 2009: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-09-28)
St. Luke's ninth chapter is filled with familiar and important stories. Then the chapter ends with a disappointing surprise, at least for Jesus. First there is the missioning of the twelve. Then the multiplication of loaves, ...
Reflection for Monday, September 27, 1999: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-09-27)
The Gospel for today addresses the question: Who is the Greatest? The setting is a discussion of Jesus with the disciples. The text says:|"An argument broke out among the disciples as to which one of them was the greatest. ...
Reflection for Monday, September 26, 2011: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-09-26)
The gospel starts out with this ominous sentence: "An argument arose among the disciples about which of them was the greatest." A statement like that is an hardly a good way to start a reading. What makes it even worse is ...
Reflection for Monday, October 1, 2001: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-10-01)
Last week a very dear friend wrote me from San Antonio. After some profound remarks about her convent's reaction to the tragedy in New York, she lightened up. "What do you call a short nun?" she asked. Answer: "Nuntheless."|I ...
Reflection for Monday, September 30, 2013: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-09-30)
"Old men and old women will again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of old age. The City will be filled with boys and girls playing in the streets." Zech. 8: 4-5|| Today's readings begin with ...
Reflection for Monday, October 1, 2007: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-10-01)
Zechariah speaks of Yahweh returning all of His people to Jerusalem, where they will be happy, but this is a promise which the Lord does not seem to have kept, at least not yet.|The prophet is responding to the fact that ...