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Reflection for Sunday, September 14, 2008: Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-09-14)
PRE-PRAYERING | We, in our house, have a little statement about unawareness. "There is more going on than is going on." In the simplest things, there is always more than meets the eye or ear or touch. Molecules are racing ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 14, 2003: Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-09-14)
So as to be more available to the graces offered through the readings for this feast, imagine Jesus hanging on the cross. He looks down, past Mary his mother and John the Beloved Disciple, to where a serpent is wriggling ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 15, 2002: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-09-15)
In order to be more receptive to God's Word and Sacrament, picture Peter's asking Jesus a not-so innocent question. Just for the sake of the picture, perhaps the other apostles have been picking on him for Jesus' having ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 17, 2000: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-09-17)
On my computer there is a little button that can make everything centered on the page. I use it to begin this article. The word "center" is quite, should we say, central, in our culture. There is "Centering Prayer" and all ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 17, 2006: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2006-09-17)
PRE-PRAYERING | We pray with our experiences of being faithful. There is a tension between what we say we will do and our doing it. In big things and little, remaining committed to our word is the journey of our relying ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 18, 2011: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-09-18)
PRE-PRAYERING||Google is actually a mathematical term, the number one followed by ten zeros. Why is Seven Up, the soft drink, not Six or Eight Up? Was there ever a real Dr. Pepper? There are questions which do have answers ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 19, 1999: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-09-19)
All three readings of this Sunday's liturgy really should be read while upside-down. God's ways are so different from our own.||We hear the prophet Isaiah remind us that as high as the sky is above the earth, God's ways ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 21, 2008: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-09-21)
PRE-PRAYERING| | In my Irish family the "Holy Land" was not in the Middle East, but the island of our ancestors. What most non-Irish people call the Holy Land is sacred to three major world religions. There are places ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 21, 2003: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-09-21)
So as to present ourselves to the graces of the liturgy, imagine Jesus with his out-stretched arms wide open in welcoming a small child tottering towards him. The disciples watch in amazement as Jesus answers their most ...
Reflection for Sunday, September 22, 2013: 25th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-09-22)
A young Jesuit whom I knew before his joining the Society of Jesus came to visit me after taking his vows. He told me, smilingly, that there were many things in Jesuit life that were not mentioned in the brochures. We had ...