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Reflection for Wednesday, June 24, 2015: The Nativity of John the Baptist.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-06-24)
The LORD called me from birth, from my mother's womb he gave me my name." Isaiah 49|The birth of a new baby brings family and friends together to congratulate the new parents and to rejoice in the hope that birth brings ...
Reflection for Tuesday, September 29, 2015: Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-09-29)
Humans communicate their thoughts and feelings for one another in various media that we talk about as symbolic. Words, pictures, gestures, expressions and all kinds of things serve to express love and hate, reasoned thought ...
Reflection for Wednesday, August 5, 2015: 18th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-08-05)
Today's readings give us a clear message that the Lord is not happy with us if we are driven by fear rooted in lack of trust in God. In fact, we are told, God rewards behavior that is bold and confident in His compassion. |In ...
Reflection for Friday, April 1, 2016: Octave of Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-04-01)
By celebrating the event of Easter intensely for eight days and then steadily for a week of weeks (49 days) the Church wants to enable us to appreciate the infinite wonder that Easter represents in our Faith. It is through ...
Reflection for Tuesday, February 16, 2016: 1st Week of Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-02-16)
This past fall, our new Creighton President, Fr. Daniel Hendrickson, chose a poem by the Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, to illuminate his role as servant president. In the poem "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" the poet ...
Reflection for Monday, November 22, 2010: Memorial of St. Cecilia.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-11-22)
Meditating on the readings and the subject of today's liturgical festival brought up three disparate insights that may be connected - they certainly point to the need for further reflection in my own life.||The Feast of ...
Reflection for Saturday, June 20, 2009: Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary (11th week in Ordinary Time).
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-06-20)
In both the spring and the fall of the year the Church invites us to recognize the great love of Jesus that is then imitated by his very human Church. Shortly after Pentecost each year the Church celebrates the Feast of ...
Reflection for Thursday, July 29, 2004: 17th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-07-29)
My Mother used to say that Martha received a 'raw deal' from Luke the Gospel writer, and possibly from Jesus, himself. (She would have been careful about leveling any such charge at Jesus, however, respectful and full of ...
Reflection for Monday, October 11, 2010: 28th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-10-11)
Back in 1978, the German Theologian, Karl Rahner, SJ, published a text in which he placed himself in the "voice" of St. Ignatius Loyola speaking to the human community of the 20th Century. It is an imaginative and daring ...
Reflection for Tuesday, November 1, 2005: All Saints, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-11-01)
As you begin this day extend a "happy Feast Day" greeting to all of your favorite Christians, this is the day to remember and imagine our salvation with great joy!|For a number of years I had the privilege of being the ...