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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 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 Wednesday, March 20, 2002: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-03-20)
"There is no need for us to defend ourselves before you in this matter . . . If our God can save us . . . may he save us! But even if he will not . . . we will not serve your god."|"If you remain in my word, you will truly ...
Reflection for Wednesday, March 16, 2005: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-03-16)
Today's scriptures are an incredible contrast in how people accept God's guidance and do His will. From Daniel, the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (you gotta love those names). A story of incredible faith in the ...
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 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 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 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 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 12, 2000: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-04-12)
"No slave has a permanent place in the family, but the Son has a place there forever. That is why if the Son frees you, you will really be free."|Most of us think that we are free. We live in a free republic with a cherished ...