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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 ...
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, July 12, 2009: 15th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-07-12)
PREPRAYING || The late John Paul II spoke extensively about the "New Evangelism". We are to spend some time in the pew, praying and receiving intimate encouragement to spend more time in the p-u of this world's process of ...
Reflection for Sunday, July 13, 2003: 15th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-07-13)
So as to be more available to the graces of the liturgy's readings, you might imagine Jesus sitting at a table handing out walking papers to the six pairs of disciples. He calls their names; they step up to receive their ...
Reflection for Sunday, July 15, 2012: 15th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-07-15)
A PONDERING||"What I desire depends on how I answer the question,"'How am I?'" i.e. "What is my truth?" When people ask you about how you are today, you seldomly answer the question honestly. You may not even have asked ...
Reflection for Sunday, July 16, 2000: 15th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-07-16)
We hear in today's First Reading of a dismissal, a sending off of the prophet Amos. He did not ambition to be a teller-of-truths; he was formerly a shepherd and a trimmer of trees. He got himself into this profession of ...
Reflection for Sunday, July 16, 2006: 15th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-07-16)
PRE-PRAYERING | In our part of the world it is summer-vacation time. People are packing up their cars, vans and trucks for trips with family, pets, and maps. They pray that they haven't forgotten anything they will need.|We ...
Reflection for Thursday, June 10, 1999: 10th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-06-10)
We hear Paul boasting of Christ in his life today as we listen to the first reading. "It is not ourselves we preach, but Christ Jesus as Lord and ourselves as your servants for Christ's sake."||Paul bathes himself in 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 ...