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Reflection for Sunday, November 8, 2009: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-11-08)
PRE-PRAYERING || Upon sitting down to read the evening's paper after dinner, my father would take off his shoes and socks. If a car were to come into our driveway, my mother would run around the living room straightening ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 11, 2012: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-11-11)
A PONDERING||Temptations are most often about over-doing or under-doing something good.|Whether we believe in the tempting-devil or not, we do know through our own experiences the power of temptations. A rather enjoyable ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 12, 2000: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-11-12)
We hear a "Chicken Soup-for-the-Soul" kind of story in today's First Reading. Elijah has been told by God to go to Zaraphath where he will find a widow. It is a time of deep drought in Israel and when Elijah arrives at the ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 12, 2006: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-11-12)
PRE-PRAYERING | In Catholic spirituality we reverence deeply every particle and drop of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. We also hold reverently each grace-embraced moment of time which leads to eternity.|As ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 12, 2010: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-12-12)
PRE-PRAYERING | The Jesuit poet, G. M. Hopkins wrote a poem about patience as a hard thing to pray for. Waiting, longing, wondering what's taking so long, are experiences we'd rather avoid. Things for which we do not have ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 16, 2001: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-12-16)
It is "Rejoice Sunday" today, and though we have just finished exams here at Creighton University, it is still just the beginning of Omaha's cold winter. I have had negative reactions, when immediately after our teams have ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 26, 2010: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-09-26)
PRE-PRAYERING|When I was a young and very pious, our days were compartmentalized, that is, they began and ended by bells. There was this huge old swinging bell that woke us all up, (including God), at five in the morning. ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 16, 2007: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-12-16)
PRE-PRAYERING||The Jesuit poet, G. M. Hopkins, wrote a poem about patience as a hard thing to pray for. Waiting, longing, wondering what's taking so long, are experiences we'd rather avoid. Things for which we do not have ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 30, 2007: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-09-30)
PRE-PRAYERING | There is a thought among sincere Christians that if you are not thinking of God, or Jesus, or "holy" things like that, then you are not a spiritual person. If you are not singing a hymn or reading a religious ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 29, 2013: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-09-29)
When I was a young and very pious religious our days were compartmentalized, that is, they began and ended by bells. There was this huge old swinging bell that woke us all up, (including God), at five in the morning. One ...