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Reflection for Friday September 27, 2019: 25th Week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2019-09-27)
In today's Gospel reading we get a glimpse of Jesus praying alone, but in the presence of His disciples. Jesus has just given the disciples bread which has been blessed and broken to distribute to the five thousand hungry ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 4, 2012: 2nd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-03-04)
The grace we ask for in the Collect for today's Eucharistic liturgy has to do with our two senses of hearing and seeing. We pray to distinguish between the Word of God and projecting our selfish desires into God's Word. ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 14, 2011: 20th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-08-14)
PRE-PRAYERING || Robert Frost, a wonderful American Poet, once wrote how a little dust of snow, shaken by a crow from the branch of a Hemlock tree fell lightly upon him and changed his mood of a day he thought he had ruined. ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 6, 2011: 9th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-03-06)
PRE-PRAYERING || After this weekend's liturgy, the Church suspends Ordinary Time until July third. This is the Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of that "joyful season of Lent." So perhaps these days you can ...
Reflection for Tuesday, December 8, 2015: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-12-08)
Every year on March twenty-fifth, the Catholic Church celebrates the Immaculate Conception of Jesus in the womb of the sinless young woman of Nazareth, Mary. Every year on today's date, the Catholic Church celebrates its ...
Reflection for Sunday, October 6, 2013: 27th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-10-06)
PRE-PRAYERING | Faith, like patience, is a hard grace to ask of God. We are oriented to know all things, especially about the future. We are impatient to grasp reasons for why events occur.|We are invited to pray for an ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 11, 2013: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-08-11)
PRE-PRAYERING || There is the familiar saying, "What's a nice guy like me doing in a place like this!" We may have all found ourselves in a similar frame of mind about being somewhere we'd rather not be or surprised at ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 7, 2010: 3rd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-03-07)
PRE-PRAYERING | Words have great histories. Etymology is the study of such wordistry. Procrastinate comes from the Latin, of course, pro means for or on behalf of, craz means tomorrow and teneo means to hold. See, we hold ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 11, 2012: 3rd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-03-11)
We pray for the desire to overcome our sins by prayer, fasting, and works of mercy. Prayer will reduce us to our baptismal dignity. We pray so as to hear more clearly our baptismal name and mission.||Fasting puts us in a ...
Reflection for Sunday, April 14, 2013: 3rd week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-04-14)
PRE-PRAYERING || We were introduced into the Christian Way and the Eucharistic Community through rituals or gestures and words. Two weeks ago we re-celebrated a re-new gesture-word in our re-upping through water and the ...