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Reflection for Tuesday, December 8, 2015: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-12-08)
Every year on March twenty-fifth, the Catholic Church celebrates the Immaculate Conception of Jesus in the womb of the sinless young woman of Nazareth, Mary. Every year on today's date, the Catholic Church celebrates its ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 4, 2007: 2nd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-03-04)
PRE-PRAYERING || We are in a continual movement toward the Holy Mountain of the Eucharistic altar. Many churches have been built atop rises and hills to emphasize the "aboveness" of the Holy God. Amazing things happen in ...
Reflection for Sunday, October 7, 2007: 27th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-10-07)
PRE-PRAYERING || We are people of faith, but our experiences of trusting Who and what we believe differ. Faith is not a feeling, but a relationship unlike any other. If anything, faith results in a feeling about like, ...
Reflection for Sunday, October 6, 2013: 27th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-10-06)
PRE-PRAYERING | Faith, like patience, is a hard grace to ask of God. We are oriented to know all things, especially about the future. We are impatient to grasp reasons for why events occur.|We are invited to pray for an ...
Reflection for Sunday, October 8, 2000: 27th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-10-08)
All the sacraments of the Catholic Church involve the gentle touch of Jesus upon various points of our human frailty. Reconciliation and The Sacrament of the Sick are obvious contacts between the divine, infinitely loving ...
Reflection for April 13, 2003: Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-04-13)
So as to be more available to the graces of the Palm Sunday liturgy, imagine that you are sitting at the table with Jesus and his disciples, celebrating the rituals of the Passover. The disciples are eating and drinking ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 11, 2013: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-08-11)
PRE-PRAYERING || There is the familiar saying, "What's a nice guy like me doing in a place like this!" We may have all found ourselves in a similar frame of mind about being somewhere we'd rather not be or surprised at ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 16, 2009: 20th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-08-16)
PRE-PRAYERING || Yesterday the Church celebrated Mary's being assumed or taken "up" to heaven. She who gave her flesh so the Word might take flesh, is now "flesh-bound when found at best". Her body was a sacred residence, ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 7, 2010: 3rd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-03-07)
PRE-PRAYERING | Words have great histories. Etymology is the study of such wordistry. Procrastinate comes from the Latin, of course, pro means for or on behalf of, craz means tomorrow and teneo means to hold. See, we hold ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 11, 2012: 3rd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-03-11)
We pray for the desire to overcome our sins by prayer, fasting, and works of mercy. Prayer will reduce us to our baptismal dignity. We pray so as to hear more clearly our baptismal name and mission.||Fasting puts us in a ...