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Reflection for Sunday, March 12, 2000: 1st week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-03-12)
The next sunday in Ordinary time will be July second. Between now and then we celebrate various seasons in the liturgical year beginning this week with Ash Wednesday and the First Sunday of Lent.|This is a "joyful season," ...
Reflection for Thursday, March 11, 1999: 3rd week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-03-11)
We hear the voice of God speaking to God's beloved people, in today's first reading from the Roman Catholic Liturgy. It is the ancient call of God to "listen to My voice, then I will be your God and you shall be My ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 5, 2000: 9th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-03-05)
This is the last Sunday of ordinary time before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the "joyful season of Lent." Our readings today center around the theme of the sacredness of time.|In Genesis, God rested on the seventh ...
Reflection for Sunday, October 10, 2004: 28th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-10-10)
PRE-PRAYERING || We are invited to pray with and reflect upon several important Christian gifts in today's readings. We pray for the grace of true humility which frees us to tell ourselves and others our true condition. ...
Reflection for Sunday, April 14, 2013: 3rd week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-04-14)
PRE-PRAYERING || We were introduced into the Christian Way and the Eucharistic Community through rituals or gestures and words. Two weeks ago we re-celebrated a re-new gesture-word in our re-upping through water and the ...
Reflection for Sunday, April 15, 2001: Easter Sunday.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-04-15)
There is a sense of relief when one stops hitting one's head against a wall; it feels so good when one stops. The joy of Easter is not that Lent has stopped beating us up, but rather, there is no more need to bang our heads ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 14, 2005: 20th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-08-14)
PRE-PRAYERING | We are preparing to celebrate the Eucharistic embraced by Jesus of all. This "all" means all within each of us and all who are around us. We are urged in every celebration of Jesus' death and resurrection ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 19, 2007: 20th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-08-19)
PRE-PRAYERING || Those who are in the know about such things, tell us that the human brain can think of one thing per second and then change channels. Just try to think about that for more than a second. Apparently we are ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 19, 2001: 20th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-08-19)
Jeremiah has literally gotten himself into deep trouble. He has been speaking to the citizens of Jerusalem to surrender to the invading, enemy king. Those soldiers and citizens who do will live and those who do not will ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 10, 2013: 4th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-03-10)
PRE-PRAYERING||We are always trying to position ourselves to be in a posture of receptivity. We are, by nature, grabbers and also human-doers and we do follow Adam and Eve by earning our bread by the sweat of our brows. ...