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Reflection for Sunday, June 22, 2003: Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-06-22)
So as to be more available to the graces of this feast, imagine Jesus is baking the unleavened bread for the celebration of Passover. While kneading the flour, he begins to smile. He wipes his hands and writes a quick note ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 27, 2006: 21st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-08-27)
PRE-PRAYERING|We pray with a sense of God's history with us. We all have an invitation to recall and then be called once more into the unknown future. Looking backward is important only when what-was is the beginning of ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 26, 2010: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-09-26)
PRE-PRAYERING|When I was a young and very pious, our days were compartmentalized, that is, they began and ended by bells. There was this huge old swinging bell that woke us all up, (including God), at five in the morning. ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 25, 2013: 21st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-08-25)
PRE-PRAYERING||It takes a degree of humility to be surprised. Those who suffer from insecurity and fear are attracted to the familiar and arranged. Being surprised can make us appear, at least to ourselves, silly or ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 26, 2007: 21st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-08-26)
PRE-PRAYERING|It takes a degree of humility to be surprised. Those who suffer from insecurity and fear are attracted to the familiar and arranged. Being surprised can make us appear, at least to ourselves, silly or ...
Reflection for Sunday, July 27, 2008: 17th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-07-27)
PRE-PRAYERING||We have a negative phrase which we use now and then to describe certain characters in our community. "Over-including" means something such as "doing or trying to do too much." They are persons who do not ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 27, 2000: 21st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-08-27)
It is "Put Up Or Shove Off Sunday" today. Joshua assembles all the people of Israel and their elders and judges as well. He asks them if it pleased them or not to continue serving their God. He gives them a choice to serve ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 26, 2001: 21st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-08-26)
Every fall at our high school here in Omaha, a quite human celebration takes place when the first-year boys show up for their first day of football practice. To be more honest, the real celebration of the human condition ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 6, 2005: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-11-06)
PRE-PRAYERING | These past weekdays we have celebrated the memory of All the Saints as well as prayed with the memories of the souls now departed. These liturgies have been also a preparation for our celebration of the ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 4, 2007: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-11-04)
PRE-PRAYERING | The Eucharist is a "Thanksgiving Sacrifice" in which we join the thanksgiving death of Jesus and in which we ask to be made an "ever-lasting gift" to God. In our celebration of the Eucharistic Liturgy, we ...