Reflection for Thursday, October 30, 2003: 30th week in Ordinary Time.
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Schlegel, John, S.J.
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2003-10-30
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Late fall was in the air as I started to read today's scripture passages. It was a Friday afternoon ending a busy week of routine and not so routine (dare I say surprising) activities. I admitted to both a mental and a physical fatigue. Then I read Paul's letter to the Romans (8:31-39). His words washed over me like a life-restoring shower. I knew at that moment I could not improve upon the author's genius. So we pray together those words, which speak of the utter confidence we should have in our ever-faithful God.||Brothers and sisters: If| God is for us, who can be against us? |He did not spare his own Son | but handed him over for us all, |how will he not also give us everything else along with Him? |Who will bring a charge against God's chosen ones? |It is God who acquits us.|Who will condemn? |It is Christ Jesus who died, rather, was raised, |who also is at the right hand of God, |who indeed intercedes for us.| What will separate us from the love of Christ? |Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?|No.|No, in all things we conquer overwhelmingly| through Him who loved us.|For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, |nor present things, nor future things, |nor powers, nor height, nor depth, |nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord! |Such reassurances from God, takes the sting from ordinary life. |And to this my soul shouts: amen, amen, and again, amen!.
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University Ministry, Creighton University.
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Lectionary Number: 482