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Reflection for Sunday, August 12, 2007: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-08-12)
PRE-PRAYERING || Fears usually indicate areas of injury to ourselves and or others. Fearfulness can be often a free-floating awareness that accompanies the realization that everything seems to be going too well.|Fears ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 18, 2002: 20th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-08-18)
So as to celebrate the Eucharist more heartily we prepare by reflecting first upon a picture of Jesus and his disciples. Here we see Jesus walking rather quickly as if he had one important thing on his mind and the disciples ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 10, 2013: 4th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-03-10)
PRE-PRAYERING||We are always trying to position ourselves to be in a posture of receptivity. We are, by nature, grabbers and also human-doers and we do follow Adam and Eve by earning our bread by the sweat of our brows. ...
Reflection for Saturday, February 13, 2016: Saturday after Ash Wednesday.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-02-13)
"If you do the impossible then I will do the impossible as a reward for you." This could be our initial response to our First Reading for this Eucharistic liturgy. All the invitations begin with the big "If" are definitely ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 11, 2002: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-08-11)
For a more prayerful reception of the Word of God in this Sunday's liturgy, try to remember the noise of a storm in which you heard windows rattle, trees slap their leaves together, waves test the shore and thunder announce ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 10, 2003: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-08-10)
So as to be more available to the graces of God's Word in our Readings, imagine Jesus sitting under a Broom Tree waiting patiently for his questioners to stop murmuring and arguing. He has his knapsack next to him and his ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 12, 2001: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-08-12)
Deep in the human heart there is a basic fear of being rejected and not included. Socially we want to be invited, accompanied, and enjoyed. We desire to be consulted and sought out. Exclusion is the beginning of hell for ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 13, 2000: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-08-13)
Spirituality|Time|The chapter of John's gospel, from which the readings come for the rest of this month, concerns Jesus presenting Himself as the Bread of Life. In today's section there is a contrast made between the manna ...
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 ...