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Reflection for Sunday, December 24, 2006: 4th week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-12-24)
PRE-PRAYERING | A one-day week for this Fourth Sunday of Advent, doesn't seem quite right. It is very difficult to prepare for a Sunday mass when that Sunday is also the eve of Christmas.|Advent Hint: We could ponder from ...
Reflection for December 24, 2000: 4th week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-12-24)
Christmas|Today we are in the shortest Fourth Week of Advent possible, just a few hours. I have a feeling that I should write this quickly and briefly so as to not get in the way of Christmas' liturgies. Short and fast ...
Reflection for Sunday, July 31, 2011: 18th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-07-31)
PRE-PRAYERING || Today is the feast of the founder of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. In 1556 Ignatius, formerly of the castle of Loyola in the north of Spain, died for the last time. He lived his early life totally ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 26, 2012: 21st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-08-26)
A PONDERING||The closest we get to true freedom is trusting God and that is the closest we get to doing or living God's "will". Having trust in something or especially somebody is a quite selfless act. Trusting can be the ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 27, 2006: 21st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-08-27)
PRE-PRAYERING|We pray with a sense of God's history with us. We all have an invitation to recall and then be called once more into the unknown future. Looking backward is important only when what-was is the beginning of ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 26, 2010: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-09-26)
PRE-PRAYERING|When I was a young and very pious, our days were compartmentalized, that is, they began and ended by bells. There was this huge old swinging bell that woke us all up, (including God), at five in the morning. ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 26, 2007: 21st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-08-26)
PRE-PRAYERING|It takes a degree of humility to be surprised. Those who suffer from insecurity and fear are attracted to the familiar and arranged. Being surprised can make us appear, at least to ourselves, silly or ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 27, 2000: 21st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-08-27)
It is "Put Up Or Shove Off Sunday" today. Joshua assembles all the people of Israel and their elders and judges as well. He asks them if it pleased them or not to continue serving their God. He gives them a choice to serve ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 26, 2001: 21st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-08-26)
Every fall at our high school here in Omaha, a quite human celebration takes place when the first-year boys show up for their first day of football practice. To be more honest, the real celebration of the human condition ...
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 ...