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Women in the crucible of change: women's influence on the church in the years 1480 to 1700
(Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University, 2009)
Reflection for Wednesday, April 23, 2008: 5th week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-04-23)
The celebration of Easter brought with it the renewal of our Baptismal promises. The covenant that Baptism strikes between the follower of Jesus and the Trinity gives the disciple the power to take up the mission (work) ...
Reflection for Saturday, January 27, 2007: 3rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-01-27)
Each year in the weeks of Ordinary Time that follow the Christmas season and anticipate Lent and Easter, the Church invites each Christian to ponder the call that is inherent in our Baptism. The call of God is always both ...
Reflection for Tuesday, February 3, 2004: 4th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-02-03)
Deep in the heart of winter the Church invites us to meditate on the warmth and compassion of our God with today's liturgy. For centuries the Church has honored St. Blase, Bishop and Martyr on this feast day. Today it ...
Reflection for Thursday, May 25, 2006: 6th week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-05-25)
Today's liturgy, for those who celebrate Ascension on Sunday before Pentecost, invites us to reflect not so much on the Lordship of Christ but the practical questions of where, when, and perhaps how we spread the Good News ...
Reflection for Wednesday, October 18, 2006: St. Luke, Evangelist.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-10-18)
Today's feast and its attendant readings offer many places to focus reflective attention. Just considering the contribution to the Church of the man we call St. Luke is important. Luke is the only known Gentile among the ...
Reflection for Tuesday, December 29, 2009: Fifth day in the Octave of Christmas.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-12-29)
In the midst of the chaos that seems to attend the end of semester, Christmas preparation, year- end economic decisions and a multitude of emotional and physical demands that go with and beyond these various dimensions of ...
Reflection for Tuesday, April 25, 2006: St. Mark, Evangelist.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-04-25)
The Church presents us with the Feast of Saint Mark on a date that virtually always falls early in the Easter Season. Mark is an interesting figure in the Christian tradition because there was a young man identified as ...
Reflection for Saturday, November 18, 2006: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-11-18)
As we move toward the end of liturgical Ordinary Time and the beginning of yet another liturgical year with the first Sunday of Advent, the Church focuses our attention today on two virtues proper to those who want to dwell ...
Reflection for Tuesday January 25, 2005: Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-01-25)
Unity is a characteristic of the Christian movement that we assert in faith every Sunday, but recognize is not really very material to our experience of Christianity every other day of the week. Never has the Christian ...