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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 Tuesday, November 8, 2011: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-11-08)
". . . we are unprofitable servants. We have done what we were obliged to do."|| We live in a society in North America that puts a high value on affirmation - some would say excessively high. Either way, this statement of ...
Reflection for Friday, November 8, 2013: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-11-08)
One of the links between the first reading and the Gospel is the concept of stewardship. The apostle Paul does not use that word in the passage from Romans but the idea is certainly there. A steward is a manager of another ...
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, 2012: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-11-08)
"Brothers and Sisters we are the circumcision"; this seems to be an odd opening statement until you consider the word "circumcision" as being symbolic for people who have a faith in God and in the teachings of Jesus. We, ...
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 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 Monday, November 13, 2006: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-11-13)
Our country has just completed another election season, and our country, state and municipal leaders have been voted into office. As citizens, we hope that these newly elected leaders will recognize their responsibilities ...
Reflection for Saturday, November 13, 2004: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-11-13)
A group of Creighton faculty and staff recently visited the Red Cloud Indian School in South Dakota to learn more about the issues facing American Indians and to assist some of the students in preparing scholarship At mass ...
Reflection for Tuesday, November 13, 2007: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-11-13)
Initially I found today's gospel to be somewhat difficult to understand. Left to my own interpretation, I would tend to think of the master as being harsh and lacking in gratitude for what his servant has done for him. ...