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Reflection for Thursday, October 3, 2013: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-10-03)
St. Francis Borgia, the third general of the Society of Jesus, and a personal friend of St. Ignatius, was one of the wealthiest and most influential men of the late 16th Century. He was a virtuous member of a Renaissance ...
Reflection for Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 18th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-08-03)
For many years I have experienced fears similar to those of the disciples during the "fourth watch of the night" - that time between 3:00 AM and dawn. In winter and in summer awakening in that darkest part of the night ...
Reflection for Friday, February 22, 2013: Chair of St. Peter, Apostle.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-02-22)
Today we celebrate a universal Feast of the Church, the Chair of Peter. In a very real way, the Church treats this feast as a kind of foundation day of the Papacy - certainly the text from Matthew that we are invited to ...
Reflection for Saturday, December 8, 2012: Immaculate Conception of Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-12-08)
The readings from the Mass on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception are replete with images of grace. Choices are given to human persons to become all that God created us to be. The contrast between Eve, the "Mother ...
Reflection for Saturday, September 24, 2011: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-09-24)
My father was a rancher who ran both sheep and cattle in Wyoming. When I was a small child I often went with him to visit the sheep camps, especially in the summer, when the sheep were taken from the ranch on the "flats" ...
Reflection for Thursday, December 8, 2011: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-12-08)
Listening to the so-called "super-committee" talk about their failure to achieve a compromise in the Senate the last few days sounds a bit like the first reading in today's liturgy from the book of Genesis: "He made me do ...
Reflection for Friday, December 27, 2013: Feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-12-27)
As I reflected on today's feast of St. John, and its placement in the Octave of Christmas, I was struck again by the delicate layers of insight the Spirit gives to the Church in our liturgical life. Even before we ponder ...
Reflection for Monday, November 22, 2010: Memorial of St. Cecilia.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-11-22)
Meditating on the readings and the subject of today's liturgical festival brought up three disparate insights that may be connected - they certainly point to the need for further reflection in my own life.||The Feast of ...
Reflection for Monday, October 11, 2010: 28th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-10-11)
Back in 1978, the German Theologian, Karl Rahner, SJ, published a text in which he placed himself in the "voice" of St. Ignatius Loyola speaking to the human community of the 20th Century. It is an imaginative and daring ...
Reflection for Friday, September 10, 2010: 23rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-09-10)
Some years ago I was working with the parents of second graders who were preparing their children for first communion. One parent was fussing about the necessity of bringing children to the Eucharist and with a touch of ...