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A Renewed Personal Encounter With Jesus
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first two paragraphs of "A Renewed Personal Encounte with Jesus"|In his Apostolic Exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel, Pope Francis appeals to all of us to give ourselves to a "renewed personal encounter" with ...
Parenting Our Adult Children
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first three paragraphs of "Parenting our Adult Children"|From the time our children are born, our job is to take care of them. Changing diapers, feeding, dressing and caring for them are what parenting means. ...
How Ordinary Time Readings Are Organized
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first four paragraphs of "How Ordinary Time Readings are Organized"|Understanding the arrangement of the readings can help us appreciate the movement of the season
and to use them to grow in our relationship ...
Finding Our Way Back Home: Getting Un-Stuck in our Prayer Life
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first four paragraphs of "Finding Our Way Back Home"|There are times in our lives when we simply need to start something with a fresh outlook. Periodically, we need to begin again - a routine, a resolution ...
My Mother's Suspice: An Alzheimer's Story
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first half of "My Mother's Suscipe: An Alzheimer's Story"|My mother, Rosemary Mulligan McCann, was a brilliant woman, and it was particularly hard for us to watch as Alzheimer's seeped her brilliance from ...
Prayer As Relationship: Our Friendship With God
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first four paragraphs of "Prayer as Relationship"|Many of us remember the oldest and best definition of prayer: "raising the mind and heart to God." I suspect that most of us practiced the first part, raising ...
Gather Us In: Pondering the Upcoming Synod on Family and Church
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first five paragraphs of "Gather Us In"|Jesus was a gatherer. He invited lowly fishermen to follow him. Children, who had no status at all, were summoned, "Come to me." A number of his close friends were ...
Judging Others? Or Ourselves?
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first five paragraphs of "Judging Others? Or Ourselves"|We often see things very clearly. We can look at the famous illusion and we know, we insist - we can argue clearly - that we see a young woman. |Or an ...
Beginning Again: Talking With God
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
Text from the first two paragraphs of "Beginning Again: Talking with God"|We have good intentions and resolves and one thing so many of us want is a deeper relationship with God. It is a longing that comes from our hearts ...
Praying in Ordinary Time Before Lent
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2000-01-01)
The five to eight weeks of Ordinary Time - after the Christmas Season and before Lent begins - is a wonderful time to pray. In many ways, it can be a pre-Lent period.|Staying Focused by following the readings|In our Weekly ...