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Reflection for Monday, April 29, 2013: 5th week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-04-29)
Today's first reading from Acts opens with Paul and Barnabas fleeing from Iconium because the people are about to attack them with stones. In the next paragraph we see the two in Lystra, where the townspeople think they ...
Reflection for April 4, 2012: Wednesday of Holy Week.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-04-04)
"Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me."||Today's gospel is a most intimate scene. Jesus and his closest followers gather around the table for Passover. This family ritual was likely a cherished part of their Jewish ...
Reflection for Monday, February 20, 2012: 7th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-02-20)
"As Jesus came down from the mountain with Peter, James, John ..." It is this first line that makes the story "shocking." Peter, James and John had just come from the vision of Jesus transfigured before them. Moses and ...
Reflection for April 5, 2010: Monday in the Octave of Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-04-05)
"Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed. . . . "||From the moment we are born, we are brought into a world of the unknowns - and fear becomes a part of our lives. Today's ...
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, ...
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 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 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 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 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, ...