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Reflection for Sunday, March 21, 2010: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-03-21)
PRE-PRAYERING | Today is traditionally considered the first day of the season we in the northern half call spring. It is the beginning of the warmer, and so, the growing season. In the southern half is this season beginning ...
Reflection for Monday, March 22, 2010: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-03-22)
Temptation, testimony, truth - today's readings contain wonderful settings that, coming during Lent, invite us to contemplate how we live our lives.||The story from Daniel is a powerful one, since we probably all have ...
Reflection for Friday, February 12, 2010: 5th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-02-12)
In today's gospel the crowd brings to Jesus a deaf man with a speech impediment and begs Jesus to lay his hand on him. Note how Jesus deals with the man, one on one, sensitively, carefully and compassionately.||"He took ...
Reflection for April 7, 2010: Wednesday in the Octave of Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-04-07)
The gospel reading for today provides us with a retrospective look at the events of Easter day. The words of Cleopas about the events in Jerusalem make it clear that this was a very significant day for him and for everyone ...
Reflection for Monday, August 2, 2010: 18th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-08-02)
In today's gospel we find a Jesus in grief over the cruel and unusual execution of John the Baptist by the debauched King Herod. John, the cousin of Jesus, was a cherished companion as well as a guide for Jesus. He hears ...
Reflection for Monday, February 22, 2010: Chair of St. Peter, Apostle
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-02-22)
And so I say to you, you are Peter,||and upon this rock I will build my Church, |and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16|The feast of the Chair of Peter reminds us that our Lord gave Peter ...
Reflection for Sunday, February 28, 2010: 2nd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-02-28)
PRE-PRAYERING | There are contacts being made in our readings for this Sunday of Lent. These are rather unusual events which take some time to unpack. There are strange yet powerful statements made which have implications ...
Reflection for Wednesday, February 10, 2010: 5th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-02-10)
My husband and I were once invited to join a Jewish family for Passover dinner in their home. We loved the stories behind each course and every ritual and it gave me a better sense of my own faith. To someone unfamiliar ...
Reflection for Wednesday, April 28, 2010: 4th week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-04-28)
I have enjoyed the change from Lent to the Easter season. The readings carry a very different tone than they did a month ago and the weather we experience seems to support this positive change to new life. It is a time for ...
Reflection for February 18, 2010: Thursday after Ash Wednesday.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-02-18)
"Choose life!" says Moses to the Israelites in the desert. And that statement is not short for, "Eat right and get your exercise." As the context makes clear, he means, "Choose to live the life of the covenant bond with ...