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Reflection for Friday, December 24, 2004: 4th week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-12-24)
If we stick with Luke's version of the birth of Jesus today, I can hardly imagine the journey to Bethlehem.|Today is a good day to contemplate the reality of Jesus' coming to enter our world and be with us. He knew our ...
Reflection for Saturday, July 28, 2001: 16th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-07-28)
A wonderful field. Planted with wheat. Then, an enemy plants weed seed in the same field. What a great image for our world!||Jesus knows that we have an instinctive sense that wants us to "weed out" those who are different ...
Reflection for Thursday, December 12, 2013: Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-12-12)
"Fear not, I will help you." "I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them." Isaiah 41|In this Second Week of Advent, we continue to hear the promise. It is a promise of the coming of one who ...
Reflection for Saturday, December 18, 1999: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-12-18)
* This is the name they give him: "The Lord our justice." || * He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor; the lives of the poor he shall save. | * You are to name him Jesus because he will save his people from their ...
Reflection for Thursday, November 27, 2008: Thanksgiving Day.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-11-27)
Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation! It is from your goodness that we gather today in this United States of America to give you thanks and praise for the blessings you have showered upon us.||We thank you for this ...
Reflection for Wednesday, December 18, 2013: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-12-18)
Justice shall flourish in his time and fullness of peace forever. Psalm 72|| At this point in the middle of our Advent journey, we can pause to enjoy what this week is about. Each day, we can be asking for the grace to let ...
Reflection for Tuesday, December 19, 2006: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-12-19)
Then Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know this?||For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years."|Far too many times, I suspect that we miss visits by angels, messengers, instruments of God with a message ...
Reflection for Sunday, June 13, 2004: 11th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-06-13)
Then Nathan said to David: "You are the man!"|I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and ...
Reflection for Sunday, June 18, 2006: 11th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-06-18)
I, the LORD, Bring low the high tree, lift high the lowly tree ...|This is how it is with the kingdom of God ...|When Jesus proclaimed that the "Kingdom of God is at hand," the poor, the lowly, the marginal must have ...
Reflection for Thursday, June 10, 2004: 10th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-06-10)
This gospel stops me, Lord. I think you mean these words for all of us - for me. You are telling me that my salvation depends not only on my being "righteous" - good, holy, together - but upon how I treat others - particularly ...