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Reflection for Sunday, September 12, 1999: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-09-12)
"Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight." We easily agree to that saying from Sirach in our first reading for this Sunday's liturgy. We agree, that is, until we feel less than loving towards ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 26, 1999: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-09-26)
I recently asked a group of first-year students at Creighton to give me some adjectives for the word, "Jesuit." After they assured me they knew what an adjective was, they were not quite as assured about what a Jesuit was. ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 19, 1999: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-09-19)
All three readings of this Sunday's liturgy really should be read while upside-down. God's ways are so different from our own.||We hear the prophet Isaiah remind us that as high as the sky is above the earth, God's ways ...
Reflection for December 24, 1998: 4th Week of Advent (mass during the day).
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1998-12-24)
Vigil of the Feast of Christmas||We are privileged in today's first scripture reading, to listen in on a three-way conversation. David is resting in peace within his palace. He seems to have a little guilt about his being ...
Reflection for Thursday, November 12, 1998: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1998-11-12)
Paul writes a very loving letter for our hearing today in the Roman Catholic liturgy of the Eucharist. Paul seems to have several personalities which are revealed in his various letters to differing communities. Sometimes ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 5, 1999: 2nd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-12-05)
"Prepare the way of the Lord." We are introduced again to the familiar Advent readings during the liturgy of this second week of Advent. Words like, "repent" and the appearance of John the Baptist heighten a spirit or sense ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 12, 1999: Our Lady of Guadalupe.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-12-12)
"Rejoice always!" It is the third Sunday and the Church asks us to be gladly grateful as the time of our celebrating His coming draws nearer.||Today's liturgy's first reading is a bold proclamation of the prophet Isaiah ...
Reflection for Thursday, December 17, 1998: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1998-12-17)
We hear today in the daily scripture readings, of the lineage of Jesus. Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, calls his sons together and announces that his son, Judah, will be the chosen one and the one from whom, "the scepter ...
Reflection for Thursday, March 18, 1999: 4th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-03-18)
We hear a most dramatic dialogue in today's first reading from the Roman Catholic liturgy. God tells Moses "Go down at once and tell your people...they have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them." Needless-to-say, ...
Reflection for Thursday, February 11, 1999: 5th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-02-11)
A beautiful story is told us in today's first reading during the Eucharistic liturgy in the Roman Catholic Church. The first reading from the first book of the Hebrew Scriptures continues the story of creation. Man and ...