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Reflection for Sunday, April 2, 2017: 5th Week of Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2017-04-02)
The Prophet Ezekiel is transported to a bone-yard of sorts. The voice of the Lord tells the prophet to call these bones back to sinews and flesh. He does so and shaking, rattling and rising begin to occur. This is not a ...
Reflection for Wednesday, April 5, 2017: 5th Week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2017-04-05)
As I sit to write this Reflection I can imagine that you, the reader/pray-er are hoping for something new and exciting. For my part I am wondering if this is possible. The disciples with whom Jesus is speaking, are not ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 4, 2001: 1st week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-03-04)
The Hebrew Scriptures are replete with stories, laws and songs intended to remind the people of Israel who they are. Moses gives many speeches confirming his followers in their identity.||Today Moses presents them with a ...
Reflection for Saturday, August 1, 2015: 17th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-08-01)
The Gospel for today's liturgy sounds like the beginning or ending of a novel. There is some sleaze, some misuse of regal power and some righteous confrontation of power by truth. There is a death, some misidentification ...
Reflection for Thursday, May 5, 2016: 6th Week of Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-05-05)
During these liturgical days after Easter, we have been walking slowly and meditatively through John's account of the graduation talk Jesus gave to His disciples the night of His arrest. The Gospel for today's Eucharistic ...
Reflection for Sunday, May 8, 2016: 7th Week of Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-05-08)
The big question you may have upon listening to the First Reading of this liturgy is why did the officials want to stone Stephen. I suggest you read the end of Chapter Six and then the first fifty-four verses of the chapter ...
Reflection for Tuesday, December 8, 2015: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-12-08)
Every year on March twenty-fifth, the Catholic Church celebrates the Immaculate Conception of Jesus in the womb of the sinless young woman of Nazareth, Mary. Every year on today's date, the Catholic Church celebrates its ...
Reflection for Friday, June 19, 2015: 11th week of Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-06-19)
Today's Gospel-reading is a continuation of the Sermon on the Hill. We have heard the scriptural texts which are for the Mass of Ash Wednesday concerning the triple actions of Lent. They speak of almsgiving, fasting and ...
Reflection for March 25, 2016: Good Friday
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-03-25)
It may appear that the liturgy for this celebration is a result of four liturgical committees who had never spoken with each other. There are four distinct sections that do form a graceful harmony. There is the Liturgy of ...
Reflection for April 13, 2003: Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-04-13)
So as to be more available to the graces of the Palm Sunday liturgy, imagine that you are sitting at the table with Jesus and his disciples, celebrating the rituals of the Passover. The disciples are eating and drinking ...