Driving on Cuming Street this past
Sunday, I observed hundreds of lightbulbs brightly burning on various
levels of the new Creighton University College of Dentistry, under
construction.
About noon, I passed by again, returning home from
Holy Family Catholic Church. Men were working high on the north façade
of the Creighton structure. As on the east exterior wall, where their
work is done, their attention now is focused on the details of the large
‘IHS’ on the northern exterior.
It
might appear somewhat of an irony that even on “the Lord’s Day,” work
is nonstop, even on the symbol “IHS,” letters representing (from the
Greek) the name of Jesus.
Jews have for centuries kept holy the
Sabbath, and Christians have been more or less keen on keeping Sunday
holy, in part by abstaining from unnecessary work.
Apparently, those operating Creighton University and
thereby the soon-to-open dentistry school have decided that work cannot
stop on this new building, even on “the Lord’s Day.”
It’s
commonplace for workers to break “the Sunday rest.” It would appear even
Jesuits — or their surrogates — have joined in these “necessary”
pursuits.
The Rev. Don Stortz, Omaha Omaha Herald
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