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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 Thursday, November 28, 2002: Thanksgiving Day.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-11-28)
We celebrate Thanksgiving today in the United States. The readings the US Bishops have chosen for our Thanksgiving Masses may seem at first to be in total contrast with the readings that will be read elsewhere today, but ...
Reflection for Friday, November 28, 2008: 34th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-11-28)
As we near the end of the liturgical year, we find many of our readings from Revelations and addressing final judgment. Even our New Testament readings have focused on the end of time, as we know it and our need to be ...
Reflection for Thursday, June 2, 2011: The Ascension of the Lord.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-06-02)
How does the Lord reveal himself to us? The Psalmist says the Lord reveals himself through his saving power and wondrous deeds. And he reveals himself to us with kindness and faithfulness. In this season of Easter, we are ...
Reflection for Sunday, June 4, 2000: 7th week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-06-04)
This Sunday, the last before Pentecost, we might call, "Election Sunday." In the First Reading for today's liturgy, we see the first apostles working out how to replace Judas who, "turned away to go to his own place." Two ...
Reflection for Sunday, June 2, 2003: 9th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-06-02)
In today's gospel, Luke tells the story of the centurion whose slave is sick. The centurion was a Roman soldier would have represented to Jesus and other Jews, a government which cruelly suppressed the Jewish people and ...
Reflection for Saturday, November 29, 2008: 34th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-11-29)
Today in Revelations, we are given a picturesque description of the gifts of God. In the Psalm, this theme is continued along with an invitation to adoration of our great God. The dire warning of the gospel then seems out ...
Reflection for Thursday, November 28, 2013: 34th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-11-28)
There are very few Old Testament stories as unforgettable and riveting as today's story of Daniel in the Lion's Den. We are awed at Daniel's utter confidence in God to sustain him through his impending death.||Faith in God ...
Reflection for Sunday, October 17, 2010: 29th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-10-17)
PRE-PRAYERING|We have a little phrase about our meeting a person by chance, "We bumped into so-and-so today." Sometimes we actually do bump into strangers in a crowd, or we bump our heads and even bump into another car, ...
Reflection for Friday, October 22, 2010: 29th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-10-22)
In real estate - so it is said - what matters is "location, location, location . . ." The same is true, in a sense, when it comes to understanding the daily readings given us in the lectionary. If we don't know the scriptural ...