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Reflection for Sunday, September 12, 1999: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-09-12)
"Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight." We easily agree to that saying from Sirach in our first reading for this Sunday's liturgy. We agree, that is, until we feel less than loving towards ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 12, 2010: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-09-12)
PRE-PRAYERING | Recently, someone wrote me with two very good questions about our Catholic faith. I decided not to respond with very good answers, of course, but with my own question about what my answers will mean to ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 13, 2009: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-09-13)
PRE-PRAYERING || Aggravate does not mean to injure or start something hurtful, but rather to re-injure or pick at something already hurtful. To say that a person aggravates us means that there is already an existing ouchy.|In ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 15, 2013: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-09-15)
PRE-PRAYERING || Recently, someone wrote me with two very good questions about our Catholic faith. I decided not to respond with very good answers, of course, but with my own question about what my answers will mean to ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 16, 2001: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-09-16)
Today's liturgy might have several names for themes flowing from the Readings. Misery Loves Compassion, Lost and Found Sunday, or Finders-Keepers, Losers-Weepers Sunday, might all reflect how our hearts would be turned ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 16, 2012: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-09-16)
A PONDERING|Our advancement in the Spiritual Life of following Jesus can not be measured or evaluated.|The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second or 186,282 miles per second. I wonder why it does not move faster. ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 16, 2007: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-09-16)
PRE-PRAYERING || Forgiving is not the same as forgetting, nor is being forgiven the same as forgetting that for which we are forgiven. Christian spirituality does not violate human psychology. Remembering is a healthy ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 18, 2005: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-09-18)
PRE-PRAYERING | There is a current phrase which some people use to describe their inability to understand other people or the meaning of some event; it is "Go figure." The spirit of today's liturgy confronts us with the ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 19, 2010: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-09-19)
PRE-PRAYERING | Last month I had a single heart by-pass which went very well - thank God and the doctor. The recovery time gave me plenty of mind-space to reflect on the shortness of life and those kind of things. Of all ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 19, 2004: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-09-19)
PRE-PRAYERING ||We are invited to do some deep considering with the readings for this Sunday's liturgy. They are "hard sayings" for those who cheat, act unjustly, and misuse all of God's gifts entrusted to them. They are ...