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Reflection for Sunday, July 25, 2004: 17th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-07-25)
PRE-PRAYERING | How we relate with others is a quite clear picture of not only what we think of this person or that person, but even more what we think of ourselves. Big people can make us feel small, both in the physical ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 18, 2005: 4th week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-12-18)
PRE-PRAYERING | We begin this last Sunday of Advent with a prayerful spirit of availability. There is still time for us to experience our stillness, our darkness and our desire to be full. We pray with the coming of fulfilled ...
Reflection for Thursday, December 17, 1998: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1998-12-17)
We hear today in the daily scripture readings, of the lineage of Jesus. Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, calls his sons together and announces that his son, Judah, will be the chosen one and the one from whom, "the scepter ...
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, October 3, 2010: 27th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-10-03)
PRE-PRAYERING|I suspect that most folks like to sit in the same pew each week surrounded with fellow parishioners with whom they are familiar. The liturgy itself has a familiar ritual sameness. Generally we would rather ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 3, 2002: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-11-03)
So as to be more receptive to God's word and the Eucharist, imagine Jesus' speaking to his close friends, the Disciples. Upon his upper arm is tied a little box, a phylactery, which contains a reminder from the law of Moses ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 26, 1999: The Feast of Holy Family of Jesus Mary and Joseph.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-12-26)
The calendar is not kind to our liturgical prayer this year. Yesterday we celebrated the birth of Jesus in the cave of Bethlehem with shepherds and angels attending and today's Gospel has Mary and Joseph taking the Child ...
Reflection for Sunday, July 25, 2010: St. James, Apostle.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-07-25)
REFLECTION||There is this human tendency we all have of avoiding persons and experiences which make us feel bad about ourselves. The opposite is true as well. Overweight persons do not easily look at themselves in a mirror ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 21, 2008: 4th week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-12-21)
PRE-PRAYERING | Finding presents to give is a great adventure, if you love the one to whom you will give the gift. The degree of difficulty depends on the depth of love. A gift for the mailman or business associate is no ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 21, 2003: 4th week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-12-21)
So as to be more available to the Advent graces contained in our readings, we might imagine Mary leaving her home and heading for her cousin Elizabeth's house. She has had a strange visitor whose message/invitation have ...