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A Weekend Retreat by Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. (2003)
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2003-01-17)
Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. gave this retreat at the Demontreville Jesuit Retreat House, Lake Elmo, Minnesota, January 17-20, 2003.|It began on Thursday evening and ended on Sunday night.|These Retreat Conferences begin with ...
A Lenten Retreat by Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. (Year A)
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2008)
INTRODUCTORY CONFERENCE|Lent, spring, and the Spiritual life have this in common; each is a tug of war. Spring is tugging at winter to let go. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius are directed at our becoming more ...
Reflection for Friday, June 24, 2016: Nativity of St. John the Baptist, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-06-24)
This liturgical celebration, also known as Little Christmas, begins with an Entrance Antiphon from the Prologue of John's Gospel. "There was a man sent by God who came to testify to the light, to prepare a people fit for ...
A Lenten Retreat by Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. (Year B)
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2009)
This retreat was given by Fr. Gillick, S.J. at the Demontreville Jesuit Retreat House, Lake Elmo, Minnesota, February 19-22, 2009.
Reflection for Sunday, November 7, 1999: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-11-07)
It has always been assumed that being wise also meant being learned. Those of us who are less learned assumed also that wisdom had not visited our door.||The First Reading of today's liturgy pictures wisdom as a radiant ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 8, 2009: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-11-08)
PRE-PRAYERING || Upon sitting down to read the evening's paper after dinner, my father would take off his shoes and socks. If a car were to come into our driveway, my mother would run around the living room straightening ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 9, 2003: Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-11-09)
To be more available to the graces of the liturgy's readings, we might imagine Jesus walking into the temple area and seeing a barnyard full of animals, birds and men haggling with each other and the Passover pilgrims.|| ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 9, 2008: Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-11-09)
PRE-PRAYERING | The "Election Season" is over, finally. Those who were victorious, who spent time telling us about the changes they were going to execute are now going to figure out how to fulfill those promises. Those who ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 10, 2002: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-11-10)
So as to become more receptive to God's grace offered to us in the liturgies of the Word and the Eucharist, we might imagine Jesus' sitting with his disciples. He is reading to them from the Book of Wisdom and nodding his ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 10, 2013: 32nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-11-10)
PRE-PRAYERING | The traditional clasping of our hands together in prayer speaks of begging or pleading. We petition God with hearts and hands in a posture of poverty and diminishment. We kneel in a similar posture of deep ...