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Reflection for March 5, 2003: Ash Wednesday.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-03-05)
Remember, you are dust, and to dust you will return.|Turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel.|When I was in grade school, I remember Ash Wednesday as a melancholy day. The nuns who taught us were unusually somber ...
Reflection for Monday, August 9, 1999: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-08-09)
When my son reads a book, he gets lost. Oblivious to the world around him, he will become so engrossed in the story in his hands, that he doesn't hear doorbells, conversations or the normal clatter of life in a busy home. ...
Reflection for Tuesday, August 15, 2006: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-08-15)
Mary looked over at John writing at his table and smiled. He had always looked so young and the years had not aged him very much. She could understand why Jesus had such a special place in his heart for John, with his ...
Reflection for Wednesday, August 15, 2012: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-08-15)
[622] Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab Psalm 45:10bc, 11, 12ab, 16|Mary looked over at John writing at his table and smiled. He had always looked so young and the years had not aged him very much. She could understand why ...
Reflection for Wednesday, August 16, 2000: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-08-16)
"If your brother should commit some wrong against you...."||"Mom! Do you know what Jack did to me?!" When my kids were younger they knew exactly what to do when a wrong had been committed against them. There is something ...
Reflection for March 10, 2011: Thursday after Ash Wednesday
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-03-10)
"Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it."|In two paragraphs, today's Gospel gives us a summary of the life of following Jesus. It will not always be easy and it ...
Reflection for February 13, 2013: Ash Wednesday .
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-02-13)
When I was in grade school, I remember Ash Wednesday as a melancholy day. The sisters who taught us were unusually somber and whispery to us that day. It felt like Ash Wednesday, with its marked foreheads and meager meals, ...
Reflection for Monday, January 13, 2014: 1st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-01-13)
Today we celebrate the return of Ordinary Time in the Church. The Christmas season ended yesterday with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord and our ordinary days seem to begin again. The Church calls it “Ordinary Time” ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 16, 2014: 2nd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-03-16)
|In today's Gospel, Jesus takes Peter, James and John, his closest friends, up to the top of a mountain. There, "he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light." And in ...
Reflection for Tuesday, November 12, 2013: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-11-12)
Today's gospel can sound startling and uncomfortable to a rational, Western mind like mine. Jesus' story uses the social structure of his time to make a point. You wouldn't invite your servant to sit down at the table and ...