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Reflection for Sunday, October 3, 2010: 27th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-10-03)
PRE-PRAYERING|I suspect that most folks like to sit in the same pew each week surrounded with fellow parishioners with whom they are familiar. The liturgy itself has a familiar ritual sameness. Generally we would rather ...
Reflection for Sunday, October 3, 2004: 27th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-10-03)
PRE-PRAYERING ||Faith, like patience, is a hard grace to ask of God. We are oriented to know things, especially about the future. We are impatient to grasp reasons for why events occur.|We are invited to pray for an increase ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 8, 2002: 23rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-09-08)
In order to receive more responsively the grace of God's Word and the Eucharist; we might imagine Jesus sitting down surrounded by his disciples.||They have been talking among themselves about such things as who should be ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 3, 2002: 3rd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-03-03)
My dear father would often threaten my brother and me by a frightening, but confusing, "If you guys know what's good for you, you'll stop that!" We knew what was good for us, exactly what we were doing. This of course led ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 4, 2005: 23rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-09-04)
PRE-PRAYERING | Are we our brothers' or sisters' keepers? The theme of the readings for our liturgy seems to be, not fault-finding, but fault-finder Sunday. We are invited to consider our responsibilities to others in the ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 5, 1999: 23rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-09-05)
"Brothers and sisters, owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law." Paul writes this opening line of this Sunday's second reading holding back nothing with the ...
Reflection for Sunday, February 24, 2008: 3rd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-02-24)
PRE-PRAYERING | For humans and especially for us in North America, progress, productivity, accomplishments ought to accompany our efforts. "If at first or second we don't succeed, then try something else which might give ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 7, 2008: 23rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-09-07)
PRE-PRAYERING || A young priest here on campus shared with me recently the love of God that surrounded him while attending an organ recital in our local cathedral. He described the vibrations, the power, the sweetness and ...
Reflection for Sunday, February 27, 2005: 3rd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-02-27)
PRE-PRAYERING||We pray in preparation for celebrating this liturgy of Lent by reflecting on how all living nature longs to escape emptiness. "Nature abhors a vacuum." Everything that lives is a celebration of self-insufficiency. ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 4, 2011: 23rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-09-04)
PRE-PRAYERING || Many things are more easily said than done. "Don't sweat the small stuff." "Everything is small stuff." "The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing." These are quick-and-easy things to say, ...