!CONTENT FREEZE ALERT! A content freeze is in affect as we upgrade the system and move to a hosted server. Nursing and OT students with final projects and capstones, you can submit to the new system at https://cdr.creighton.edu/home. If you have any questions, please contact us at cdr@creighton.edu.!CONTENT FREEZE ALERT!
Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 37
Reflection for Sunday, November 15, 2020: 33rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2020-11-15)
|Vestment, vestige, vest, divest, vestibule, and invest, all are derived from the Latin word for "clothes." An investment is somehow placing something important, precious, in the clothing of something or someone else. We ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 13, 2022: 33rd Week of Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2022-11-13)
|As young Jesuits, years ago now, at the evening meal we would listen to the daily recounting from a book entitled 'the Martyrology.' We would be eating dinner and hear accounts of heads being knocked off, bodies boiled ...
Reflection for Sunday, June 21, 2020: 12th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2020-06-21)
|The last Sunday we celebrated in Ordinary Time was February twenty-third and then came Lent, followed by Easter Time and then the two special solemnities of the Holy Trinity and The Body and Blood of Jesus. So we are back ...
Reflection for Friday, March 27, 2020: 4th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2020-03-27)
|"Because he is obnoxious to us" are the words of those who are recorded in the Book of Wisdom, who do not like what someone has been saying about them. Obnoxious, from the Latin "nocere" means "harm". Noxious can be a ...
Reflection for Tuesday, April 21, 2020: 2nd Week of Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2020-04-21)
|Nicodemus has come to Jesus, obviously, seeking something new. He is a teacher of Israel whose laws and traditions are ancient. He seems to be attempting to fit Jesus' new with the Jewish old. He wants to fuse the religious ...
Reflection for Thursday, September 24, 2020: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2020-09-24)
|"Vanity" is a vain attempt to be in the eyes of others, the person you feel you cannot be in your own eyes. It is an empty pursuit, because of the deep underlying self-disappointment which results in the fear that others ...
Untitled
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2022-05-26)
|Back in the early sixties, in the Jesuit Novitiate, each Spring, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta was performed by the good singers of the class. The less-blest of us were given the opportunity to practice and sing, ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 14, 2022: 20th Week of Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2022-08-14)
|A little American History will assist in understanding today's First Reading from the Prophet Jeremiah. Ulysses S. Grant, the commanding General of the Union Forces has been battling the forces of The Confederacy, Robert ...
Reflection for Thursday, July 23, 2020: 16th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2020-07-23)
|Shakespeare, in Sonnet 116, spends sixteen lines of flowery words with a couple of fine images and some good words. Why didn't he just come out clear, straight and simple and say that he's in favor of married-love? He ...
Reflection for Monday, October 19, 2020: 29th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2020-10-19)
|This Reflection has to have two separate, but in a way, one unified theme. The eight French-Jesuit martyrs are commemorated on this date every year. The Readings for this liturgy are, ( 2 Cor. 4, 7-15 and Matthew 28, 16-20 ...