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Reflection for Sunday, December 10, 2017: 2nd Week of Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2017-12-10)
Advent has only three full weeks this year. Christmas Eve's being on a Sunday means that the fourth week is only a short few hours. "So", we say-pray, "Better get with the program." We wish sincerely that we could be ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 8, 2002: 2nd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-12-08)
So as to be more receptive to the graces of the Word and the Eucharist, imagine a man dressed in a camel's hair kind of coat, standing outside a barbed wire fence. He is shouting at the top of his voice to the imprisoned ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 7, 2008: 2nd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-12-07)
PRE-PRAYERING||When there is a messiness around us it is hard to know just where to begin the cleaning. Beginnings are not easy all the time. How to begin a speech or important paper, how to begin a conversation with the ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 7, 2011: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-08-07)
PRE-PRAYERING |We pray these days as people on a journey. We are one form of God's really being present. We have eaten of the Bread of Life, Jesus, both in the Eucharist and in our acceptance of him as the One Who Has Been ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 4, 2011: 2nd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-12-04)
PRE-PRAYERING || We are preparing to be prepared for Christmas these days of Advent. This Second Sunday of Advent we pray for a listening heart to hear the words of comfort and call. We pray for a stillness around us; a ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 4, 2005: 2nd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-12-04)
PRE-PRAYERING | We are preparing to be prepared for Christmas these days of Advent. This Second Sunday of Advent we pray for a listening heart to hear the words of comfort and call. We pray for a stillness around us a ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 7, 2005: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-08-07)
PRE-PRAYERING | We pray with consequences of last-weekend's liturgical readings. There was a miraculous feeding of many with apparently little. As we make our individual and communal ways toward this weekend's celebration, ...
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, August 10, 2008: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-08-10)
PRE-PRAYERING | Adjectives come in three forms. The simple describes a person or thing as it is. The comparative describes a person or thing in contrast to another particular person or thing. The superlative describes a ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 11, 2002: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-08-11)
For a more prayerful reception of the Word of God in this Sunday's liturgy, try to remember the noise of a storm in which you heard windows rattle, trees slap their leaves together, waves test the shore and thunder announce ...