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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 24, 2010: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-03-24)
The readings today present a contrast between the first reading reflecting a steadfast belief and actions congruent with such a belief and gospel where the actions seem incongruent with the claims. It is clear that Shadrach, ...
Reflection for Wednesday, April 9, 2014: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-04-09)
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! Although most of us would be challenged to spell their names, they just seem to roll off the tongue. Their names were imbedded in our minds as children and their story was the basis for ...
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 20, 2013: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-03-20)
A sinkhole beneath a house in Florida opens, and the sleeping homeowner disappears underground forever. The seemingly solid earth was an illusion. In a rather difficult teaching in today's Gospel, Jesus rejects "those Jews ...
Reflection for Wednesday, March 24, 1999: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-03-24)
"When the heart is hard and parched up,| come upon me with a shower of mercy.||When grace is lost from life, |come with a burst of song.|When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides|shutting me out from the beyond,|come ...
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, 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, 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 ...