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Reflection for Wednesday, August 15, 2012: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-08-15)
[622] Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab Psalm 45:10bc, 11, 12ab, 16|Mary looked over at John writing at his table and smiled. He had always looked so young and the years had not aged him very much. She could understand why ...
Reflection for Tuesday, August 15, 2006: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-08-15)
Mary looked over at John writing at his table and smiled. He had always looked so young and the years had not aged him very much. She could understand why Jesus had such a special place in his heart for John, with his ...
Reflection for Tuesday, October 10, 2000: 27th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-10-10)
My life is a little hectic. My husband and I both work, our kids are in high school and each day of our family calendar is filled in with games, school meetings, and what feels like a dozen other events. I'm a very busy ...
Reflection for March 5, 2003: Ash Wednesday.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-03-05)
Remember, you are dust, and to dust you will return.|Turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel.|When I was in grade school, I remember Ash Wednesday as a melancholy day. The nuns who taught us were unusually somber ...
Reflection for Friday, April 12, 2002: 2nd week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-04-12)
What did those apostles eat for breakfast that morning? Was there some special food they ate that suddenly gave them such courage? In today's first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, we see the same friends of Jesus ...
Reflection for Friday, August 9, 2002: 18th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-08-09)
"Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me." Matthew 16|Some time during the 1960s, wedding vows changed. Instead of the traditional "Love, honor and obey" the words were changed ...
Reflection for March 10, 2011: Thursday after Ash Wednesday
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-03-10)
"Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it."|In two paragraphs, today's Gospel gives us a summary of the life of following Jesus. It will not always be easy and it ...
Reflection for Monday, August 9, 1999: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-08-09)
When my son reads a book, he gets lost. Oblivious to the world around him, he will become so engrossed in the story in his hands, that he doesn't hear doorbells, conversations or the normal clatter of life in a busy home. ...
Reflection for March 8, 2000: Ash Wednesday.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-03-08)
When I was in grade school, I remember Ash Wednesday as a melancholy day. The nuns who taught us were unusually somber and whispery to us that day. It felt like Ash Wednesday, with its marked foreheads and meager meals, ...
Reflection for Wednesday, August 16, 2000: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-08-16)
"If your brother should commit some wrong against you...."||"Mom! Do you know what Jack did to me?!" When my kids were younger they knew exactly what to do when a wrong had been committed against them. There is something ...