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Reflection for Wednesday, December 18, 2013: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-12-18)
Justice shall flourish in his time and fullness of peace forever. Psalm 72|| At this point in the middle of our Advent journey, we can pause to enjoy what this week is about. Each day, we can be asking for the grace to let ...
Reflection for Tuesday, December 19, 2006: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-12-19)
Then Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know this?||For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years."|Far too many times, I suspect that we miss visits by angels, messengers, instruments of God with a message ...
Reflection for Saturday, July 26, 2003: 16th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-07-26)
" 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?' ...|'Do you want us to go and pull them up?' He replied, 'No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them.|Let ...
Reflection for Monday, July 28, 2003: 17th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-07-28)
"The kingdom of Heaven is like this..."||After all of these years, it just "hit me" what the parables of the mustard seed and the yeast in the dough are all about. I always knew they are about Jesus' hopeful, good-news ...
Reflection for Monday, July 28, 2008: 17th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-07-28)
There are powerful images in the readings today. God does an earthy demonstration for Jeremiah. Using a very memorable image - God is as close to Israel as a loin cloth is close to our bodies - God has Jeremiah put his ...
Reflection for Saturday, July 30, 2005: 17th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-07-30)
John the Baptist was a conscience problem for Herod. Herod wanted to kill this prophet who reminded him and others that Herod shouldn't be living with his brother's wife. However, Herod had a second flaw. He liked to be ...
Reflection for Monday, July 30, 2007: 17th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-07-30)
Moses is so frustrated with the people that he throws down the stone tablets of the Law which God had just given him and shatters them. Moses has been away for a while and the people got restless, impatient, selfish. They ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 22, 1998: Our Lord Jesus Christ The King, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1998-11-22)
And the people stood by, watching; but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!"||And [the other criminal] said, "Jesus, remember me when you ...
Reflection for Monday, December 19, 2011: 4th week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-12-19)
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall name him John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice ...
Reflection for Sunday, July 25, 1999: St. James, Apostle.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-07-25)
The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field ... like a merchant searching for fine pearls ... like a net thrown into the sea||Jesus transforms our thinking about the reign of God. He does not want us to ...