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Reflection for Sunday, September 10, 2006: 23rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-09-10)
PRE-PRAYERING | We are always moving, either forward or back, but we are never the same old self. This is true physically as well as spiritually. You are not the same person at this moment as you were entering the liturgical ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 9, 2012: 23rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-09-09)
A PONDERING|There is nothing we can do to make God love us more, nor less.|Love is more than a feeling. Love is a relational commitment freely offered and for humans it is based on something or somethings present and real ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 10, 2000: 23rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-09-10)
The liturgy opens today with a reading from Isaiah which sound more like an Advent Reading. When the Lord comes things will be reversed; deserts will be made into pools and streams, and the lame will leap. The natural ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 26, 2004: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-09-26)
PRE-PRAYERING ||We are invited to an uncomfortable liturgical listening. At least for those of us who live in the lands of plenty, these readings make us want to turn the channel. For those who have less of this world's ...
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, 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, 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 ...