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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 Wednesday September 25, 2019: 25th Week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2019-09-25)
|The Feast of the Holy Cross each year (September 14) falls close to the Fall Equinox and the continued movement into the rapidly waning light in the Northern Hemisphere. Now there are now more hours of darkness and the ...
Reflection for Thursday, May 15, 2014: 4th week of Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-05-15)
The liturgies of the Easter Season provide a constant reflection on what living in the Reign of God entails. Each day we hear the preaching about God’s activities that have brought forth God’s reign on earth and we are ...
Reflection for Saturday, June 28, 2014: Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-06-28)
|The Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is one of the interesting "diptychs" that crop up during the liturgical year, nearly always in relationship to a Feast of Solemnity of the Lord. A diptych is two paintings which ...
Reflection for Tuesday, March 19, 2013: St. Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-03-19)
The Feast of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church||In today's liturgical celebration we step apart from the intensifying climb toward Calvary in Holy Week next week and pause in the light and joy of the Solemnity of ...
Reflection for Saturday, November 9, 2013: Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-11-09)
Today's liturgical celebration, which is a major feast day of the Church, provides a meditation itself even before we consider the readings and their wonderful images. What does it mean to celebrate this specific place?||The ...
Reflection for Monday, February 3, 2014: 4th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-02-03)
Today’s liturgy is simply that of Monday in the Fourth Week of Ordinary Time, but the Church also honors St. Blaise with an optional memorial. An early Fourth Century Bishop of Armenia, Blaise was martyred even after the ...
Reflection for Tuesday, April 8, 2014: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-04-08)
Throughout the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, the one engaging the process of prayer is counseled to continuously ask for specific graces that he desires. But before he can desire something he has to see clearly ...
Reflection for Monday, November 10, 2014: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-11-10)
|In a class not long ago, a student asked me what single behavior was the most important for a Catholic to practice, in order to be faithful to the Christian vocation. I am not sure what the young person was expecting me ...
Reflection for Tuesday, February 8, 2011: 5th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-02-08)
In these early weeks of Ordinary Time, Cycle 1, the Church begins a semi-continuous reading of the Book of Genesis in the daily lectionary. "In the beginning . . . "we began yesterday, and today we hear proclaimed the ...