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Reflection for Wednesday, August 15, 2012: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-08-15)
[622] Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab Psalm 45:10bc, 11, 12ab, 16|Mary looked over at John writing at his table and smiled. He had always looked so young and the years had not aged him very much. She could understand why ...
Reflection for March 10, 2011: Thursday after Ash Wednesday
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-03-10)
"Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it."|In two paragraphs, today's Gospel gives us a summary of the life of following Jesus. It will not always be easy and it ...
Reflection for Tuesday, November 12, 2013: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-11-12)
Today's gospel can sound startling and uncomfortable to a rational, Western mind like mine. Jesus' story uses the social structure of his time to make a point. You wouldn't invite your servant to sit down at the table and ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 16, 2014: 2nd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-03-16)
|In today's Gospel, Jesus takes Peter, James and John, his closest friends, up to the top of a mountain. There, "he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light." And in ...
Reflection for Sunday, May 25, 2014: 6th week of Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-05-25)
|Then the apostles laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. |Although there have been times in my life when I never had a clear picture of the Spirit's place in my life, the older I get, the more I can feel ...
Reflection for Wednesday, February 10, 2010: 5th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-02-10)
My husband and I were once invited to join a Jewish family for Passover dinner in their home. We loved the stories behind each course and every ritual and it gave me a better sense of my own faith. To someone unfamiliar ...
Reflection for Monday, January 13, 2014: 1st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-01-13)
Today we celebrate the return of Ordinary Time in the Church. The Christmas season ended yesterday with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord and our ordinary days seem to begin again. The Church calls it “Ordinary Time” ...
Reflection for Wednesday, February 26, 2014: 7th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-02-26)
The message of Jesus is so very simple, but often I don’t want to hear it. Help the poor, love my enemies and don’t be so obsessed with wealth and power. All wonderful ideas and ones I cheer with my whole heart. Well, ...
Reflection for April 21, 2014: Monday in the Octave of Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-04-21)
Yesterday was the glorious feast of Easter joy. Today the churches are quieter as we begin to return to “normal” life. But what can be “normal” after Easter? Can we be the same people we were before the passion, death ...
Reflection for February 13, 2013: Ash Wednesday .
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-02-13)
When I was in grade school, I remember Ash Wednesday as a melancholy day. The sisters who taught us were unusually somber and whispery to us that day. It felt like Ash Wednesday, with its marked foreheads and meager meals, ...