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Reflection for Sunday, September 20, 2009: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-09-20)
PRE-PRAYERING || The "spiritual life" is our way of living with and not leaving behind the ups and yips of life. Our faith with all its rituals and prayers constantly assures us that we are not abandoned, but neither are ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 22, 2002: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-09-22)
So as to be more receptive to the Word and the Eucharist, imagine the faces of the disciples and of the Pharisees who seemed always to be tuned in, as Jesus in parable offers a difficult teaching. At this late date, his ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 23, 2007: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-09-23)
PRE-PRAYERING || Names and titles can be expression of activities. Nicknames can refer to actions, stature, something physical. We each can have several names, family-of-origin names, names based on our commitments, titles ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 23, 2001: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-09-23)
When I was a very young lad, now a long time passing, my parents took us on a two-week vacation to northern Wisconsin. A neighbor-boy, who lived with his mother in a rather poor apartment stood near our increasingly-packed ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 24, 2006: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-09-24)
PRE-PRAYERING | We continue praying with our experiences of trying to be virtuous. Each day, each moment has its call to attentiveness, receptiveness, and generosity. The more we desire virtue the less we seem to live it, ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 25, 2011: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-09-25)
PRE-PRAYERING || C. S. Lewis once wrote that the most emphatic noise is the one you are trying not to listen to. The TV is on very loud next to my room, dogs are barking across the lane and you expect me to write something ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 26, 1999: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-09-26)
I recently asked a group of first-year students at Creighton to give me some adjectives for the word, "Jesuit." After they assured me they knew what an adjective was, they were not quite as assured about what a Jesuit was. ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 28, 2008: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-09-28)
PRE-PRAYERING | |I began my daily run this morning and experienced a "scandal". There was a little pebble in my shoe. The word for "scandal" derives from the Greek word for "little pebble". The longer I ran the more like ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 28, 2003: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-09-28)
So as to be more available to the graces of these readings, imagine Jesus and John watching a video where in someone is seen driving out demons in the name of Jesus. John points to the screen and reminds Jesus that this ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 1, 2002: 1st week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-12-01)
So as to be more receptive to the hearing of the Word and the celebration of the Eucharist, imagine Jesus standing at the station waiting for the next train of camels to come along. He gives them some tasks to do while he ...