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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 Thursday, July 23, 2015: 16th week in Ordinary Time..
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-07-23)
How is God reaching me? How do I hear? How do I see?|In the first reading God made Himself known with thunder and lightning. Moses on Mount Sinai had no problem discerning when God was talking and what He was saying. It's ...
Reflection for Thursday, July 23, 2009: 16th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-07-23)
"After the journey . . . they pitched camp." (Exodus 19:2) Pitching camp is something I enjoy. This summer we are preparing for another camping trip with my family in the mountains of Colorado. When backpacking in the ...
Reflection for Thursday, July 24, 2003: 16th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-07-24)
Many of us live today in a consumer culture where we are constantly called to accumulate material goods, to have more and more things that make our lives easier, to pursue a life of ease and comfort. In such a culture it ...
Reflection for Thursday, July 21, 2011: 16th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-07-21)
In our first reading we see God shaking a mountain, speaking in thunder and trumpet blasts, and generally imposing His existence and power by terrifying the people. He seems intent here on leaving the Israelites no possibility ...
Reflection for Thursday, July 21, 2005: 16th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-07-21)
The God of Quiet and Clamor|Moses climbed Mt. Sinai in a storm while the people waited at the bottom afraid. That day You spoke in the midst of clouds and clamor.|The three friends refused to bow down to the golden statue. ...
Reflection for Thursday, July 27, 2017: 16th Week in Ordinary Time
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2017-07-27)
Our two readings today relate, in my mind, to the human need to see, touch, feel and experience something for it to be 'real'. The scientist in each of us needs proof, and yet faith calls us to believe what we cannot ...