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Reflection for Friday, December 24, 2004: 4th week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-12-24)
If we stick with Luke's version of the birth of Jesus today, I can hardly imagine the journey to Bethlehem.|Today is a good day to contemplate the reality of Jesus' coming to enter our world and be with us. He knew our ...
Reflection for Saturday, July 28, 2001: 16th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-07-28)
A wonderful field. Planted with wheat. Then, an enemy plants weed seed in the same field. What a great image for our world!||Jesus knows that we have an instinctive sense that wants us to "weed out" those who are different ...
Reflection for Thursday, November 27, 2008: Thanksgiving Day.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-11-27)
Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation! It is from your goodness that we gather today in this United States of America to give you thanks and praise for the blessings you have showered upon us.||We thank you for this ...
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 Sunday, June 13, 2004: 11th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-06-13)
Then Nathan said to David: "You are the man!"|I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and ...
Reflection for Sunday, June 18, 2006: 11th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-06-18)
I, the LORD, Bring low the high tree, lift high the lowly tree ...|This is how it is with the kingdom of God ...|When Jesus proclaimed that the "Kingdom of God is at hand," the poor, the lowly, the marginal must have ...
Reflection for Thursday, June 10, 2004: 10th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-06-10)
This gospel stops me, Lord. I think you mean these words for all of us - for me. You are telling me that my salvation depends not only on my being "righteous" - good, holy, together - but upon how I treat others - particularly ...
Reflection for Monday, December 9, 2002: 2nd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-12-09)
Advent Prayer for the Immaculate Conception|A highway will be there, called the holy way; ... It is for those with a journey to make, and on it the redeemed will walk.|Isaiah's powerful description of the homecoming of the ...
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 ...