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Reflection for Sunday, November 2, 2008: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-11-02)
Sunday in Ordinary Time Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed PRE-PRAYERING|We have a little saying that when you get a lemon, you make lemonade. This means generally that when something sour or displeasing comes our ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 2, 2003: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-11-02)
So as to be more available to the graces flowing through these readings and this liturgy, we might, using our memories, call to mind the faces and personalities of those faithful who have been companions with us on our ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 3, 2002: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-11-03)
So as to be more receptive to God's word and the Eucharist, imagine Jesus' speaking to his close friends, the Disciples. Upon his upper arm is tied a little box, a phylactery, which contains a reminder from the law of Moses ...
Reflection for Sunday, February 17, 2008: 2nd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-02-17)
PRE-PRAYERING || There is nothing in our minds that was not first in our senses.|This is an old philosophical statement and deserves some thoughtfulness leading to prayer. God has to come to us in ways we can receive and ...
Reflection for Sunday, April 10, 2005: 3rd week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-04-10)
PRE PRAYERING | We continue to gather together with the newly baptized around the Eucharistic table with Easter hope and joy. We pray for the grace to conduct ourselves with the reverence with which Jesus reverences us.|We ...
Reflection for Sunday, October 1, 2006: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-10-01)
PRE-PRAYERING | We pray with the sense that we do belong to God by God's loving creation and redemption of us. We pray with the sense that we are blest by the Spirit of this loving God and offered as a continuation of ...
Reflection for Sunday, October 1, 2000: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-10-01)
Moses is having a bad time of it here in the First Reading today. He has led God's people out into the desert and they are left low and dry and quite hungry. They are complaining and so Moses picks up the theme and questions ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 3, 2008: 18th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-08-03)
PRE-PRAYERING || There are many little statements which are employed at times of loss. "She's in a better place now." "God wanted him home." "One door closes and an other one opens." "There are other fish in the pond." ...
Reflection for Sunday, February 23, 2003: 7th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-02-23)
So as to be more available to the Word of God, imagine a small two-room, flat-roofed dwelling. A large crowd surrounds the doorway and several are trying to wedge their way into the small inner room. There are four men ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 2, 2008: 4th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-03-02)
PRE-PRAYERING | There are these two words which often can be mistakenly used: annoy and aggravate. The latter can sound more forceful and intense, while the former seems mild.|Aggravate means to annoy something in us that ...