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Reflection for Wednesday, November 8, 2006: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-11-08)
Philippians 2: 12-18; "...work out your salvation with fear and trembling..."|Psalm 27: 1, 4, 13-14 "...One thing I ask of the LORD; this I seek: To dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life..."|Luke 14: 25-33 ...
Reflection for Monday, November 8, 2004: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-11-08)
On first read, today's scriptures are pretty discouraging. Paul lists out a long list of criteria to be a bishop. Not only do I have to be a saint, but my children have to be saints. Scratch me from the bishop list. And ...
Reflection for Saturday, November 8, 2003: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-11-08)
"No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. And he said to them, "You justify yourselves in the sight of others, ...
Reflection for Thursday, November 8, 2007: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-11-08)
I'm getting old enough now to be considered a confidant for the older people in my family who are reflecting on their long lives and trying to make sense of them. I've been around long enough to know a lot about their lives ...
Reflection for Thursday, November 8, 2001: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-11-08)
Whenever one reads these particular verses from Paul it is tempting to leap right away into an Augustinian reflection on the pervasiveness of sin and the universal need for grace. I am so tempted but I will defer, at least ...
Reflection for Saturday, November 8, 2008: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-11-08)
Paul, writing in the first century A.D., could easily have been writing in the 21st century. In the first Reading, Paul is responding to the great concern one community of people, the Philippians, have shown him. He notes ...
Reflection for Wednesday, November 8, 2000: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-11-08)
It is not easy to be a follower of Jesus. It wasn't in Jesus' own day, and it isn't today.||Following Jesus for the original disciples meant breaking away from father, mother, wife, children, sisters, brothers -- and all ...
Reflection for Friday, November 8, 2002: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-11-08)
Jesus is an astute observer of human nature. In Luke's parable he observes that like the dishonest manager the children of this world are more enterprising in taking care of this-worldly concerns than of other-worldly ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 13, 2005: 33rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-11-13)
PRE-PRAYERING | We have these last two Sundays in Ordinary time and the prayer flowing from the Readings add up to a pre-exam review. What have we learned these past weeks of the liturgical year? We have watched and listened ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 13, 2011: 33rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-11-13)
PRE-PRAYERING || Here in North America we are preparing to celebrate the old, ancient, liturgy with a few translational changes. In two weeks we will pray with words which are a more literal and exact rendering of the Latin ...