Reflection for Friday, March 13, 2009: 2nd week in Lent.

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dc.contributor.authorWirth, Eileenen_US
dc.contributor.cuauthorWirth, Eileen M.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-09T18:27:58Z
dc.date.available2014-06-09T18:27:58Z
dc.date.cycleYear Ien_US
dc.date.day13en_US
dc.date.daynameFridayen_US
dc.date.issued2009-03-13en_US
dc.date.monthMarchen_US
dc.date.seasonLenten_US
dc.date.weekWeek: 2en_US
dc.date.year2009en_US
dc.description.abstract"The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone."||After reading the warning in today's Gospel that "the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit," it's tempting to write a screed about how Jesus loved outsiders and we'd better be nice to them OR ELSE.|True enough, but not very helpful. Instead I've been meditating on the quote from Scripture just above those lines - about the stone the builders rejected becoming the cornerstone. I think it's useful for parents and teachers, especially, to ponder just HOW that might happen with the people we are raising, teaching and mentoring. That's central to my mission at a Jesuit university.|Two years ago, I spent an inspiring day interviewing students at Chicago's Cristo Rey High School for a chapter in my book on the nation's Jesuit high schools. Cristo Rey's low income, mostly minority students pay much of their tuition by working one day a week at an off-campus job that they share with other students. They earn badly needed income for their education but more importantly, they connect with people who become their mentors and guides to a world far different than their neighborhoods. The results have been remarkable.|"My father tells everyone that he was a garbage picker in Mexico and now he has a daughter who is going to Georgetown," one senior told me. I'm pretty sure Cristo Rey's magic isn't just introducing its students to rich and educated people so much as it is in exposing them to caring mentors, making real demands and holding them accountable. It works because the school and the mentors respect and value the students rather than pitying them.|I think Jesus wants us to open God's Kingdom to a far broader collection of people than many of this world's privileged people would do. We can help build the Kingdom of God here by extending ourselves in love, respect and genuine solidarity that banishes class and economic distinctions to "outsiders" as the Cristo Rey schools do.en_US
dc.identifier.otherLectionary number: 234en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10504/52014
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.program.unitCollege of Arts and Sciencesen_US
dc.program.unitJournalism, Media and Computingen_US
dc.program.unitJournalism, Media and Computingen_US
dc.publisherUniversity Ministry, Creighton University.en_US
dc.publisher.locationOmaha, Nebraska, United Statesen_US
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dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10504/65041
dc.rightsThese reflections may not be sold or used commercially without permission. Personal or parish use is permitted.en_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity Ministry, Creighton University.en_US
dc.subject.local1Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28aen_US
dc.subject.local2Psalms 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21en_US
dc.subject.local4Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46en_US
dc.titleReflection for Friday, March 13, 2009: 2nd week in Lent.en_US
dc.title.seriesDaily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.en_US
dc.typeEssay
dc.url.link1http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.htmlen_US
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