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Reflection for Sunday, September 19, 2010: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-09-19)
PRE-PRAYERING | Last month I had a single heart by-pass which went very well - thank God and the doctor. The recovery time gave me plenty of mind-space to reflect on the shortness of life and those kind of things. Of all ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 26, 2004: 26th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-09-26)
PRE-PRAYERING ||We are invited to an uncomfortable liturgical listening. At least for those of us who live in the lands of plenty, these readings make us want to turn the channel. For those who have less of this world's ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 4, 2005: 2nd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-12-04)
PRE-PRAYERING | We are preparing to be prepared for Christmas these days of Advent. This Second Sunday of Advent we pray for a listening heart to hear the words of comfort and call. We pray for a stillness around us a ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 8, 2002: 2nd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-12-08)
So as to be more receptive to the graces of the Word and the Eucharist, imagine a man dressed in a camel's hair kind of coat, standing outside a barbed wire fence. He is shouting at the top of his voice to the imprisoned ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 12, 2010: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-12-12)
PRE-PRAYERING | The Jesuit poet, G. M. Hopkins wrote a poem about patience as a hard thing to pray for. Waiting, longing, wondering what's taking so long, are experiences we'd rather avoid. Things for which we do not have ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 12, 1999: Our Lady of Guadalupe.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-12-12)
"Rejoice always!" It is the third Sunday and the Church asks us to be gladly grateful as the time of our celebrating His coming draws nearer.||Today's liturgy's first reading is a bold proclamation of the prophet Isaiah ...
Reflection for Sunday, February 26, 2006: 8th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-02-26)
PRE-PRAYERING | This is the last Sunday of Ordinary time until June 25th. Next Sunday will be the First Sunday of Lent. We are invited to pray for the grace of receiving Christ's ways as always new and always re-forming ...
Reflection for Sunday, February 26, 2012: 1st week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-02-26)
"That we may grow in understanding of the riches hidden in Christ."||These words are taken from the Opening Prayer of this Sunday's liturgy. So our prayer these days is oriented towards understanding Christ's life, death ...
Reflection for Sunday, February 27, 2000: 8th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-02-27)
There are some marital vows pledged to the people of Israel through the Prophet Hosea in today's first reading. Israel has heard herself called "unfaithful" and referred to as a prostitute, but God comes courting her. To ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 2, 2003: 8th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-03-02)
So as to be more available to the grace of the readings, we might imagine Jesus and his disciples secretly snitching food from a table prepared for a wedding reception. He fills his pockets as well and some people around ...