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Reflection for Sunday, June 2, 2003: 9th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-06-02)
In today's gospel, Luke tells the story of the centurion whose slave is sick. The centurion was a Roman soldier would have represented to Jesus and other Jews, a government which cruelly suppressed the Jewish people and ...
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 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 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 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 Wednesday, September 5, 2012: 22nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-09-05)
The readings today are filled with a glimpse of real humanity both in the life of Jesus and in the early Church. No matter how much we want to envision the warmth and love of the earliest Christians for one another, they ...
Reflection for Monday, February 27, 2012: 1st week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-02-27)
"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink..."|Matthew 25 is a wonderful place to start our Lent journey because of its loving vision of care for others. Jesus' words have such power to ...
Reflection for Wednesday, December 11, 2013: 2nd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-12-11)
"Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these things." Isaiah 40||My To Do list is filled - always. I revise it, add to it and proudly cross things off of it. I have perfected a system that combines my lists on ...
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 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 ...