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Reflection for Sunday, March 21, 1999: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-03-21)
The readings for today resonate with resurrection themes. The full passage from Ezekiel (I always find it hard to read the excerpts if they don't tell the full story) is a step-by-step process of raising the dead, from ...
Reflection for Wednesday, February 10, 1999: 5th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-02-10)
Have you ever seen or been part of a new birth? Perhaps it was the birth of a baby, maybe even your own child; perhaps it was the birth of an animal; or perhaps it was a "rebirth" of a relationship, of restored health, or ...
Reflection for Friday, February 12, 1999: 5th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-02-12)
Then, looking up at heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened.''||Today's gospel tells us of Jesus' healing of the deaf man who could not speak. It's a familiar story line in the gospels where ...
Reflection for Saturday, December 25, 1999: Christmas, The Nativity of the Lord.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-12-25)
A Christmas Prayer | | Age after age, our people have waited so long. The dreamless nights. The hard climb. Our weary hearts. Our feet are sore. The disappointments have been mounting for quite some time. Eyes cast ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 1, 1998: All Saints, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1998-11-01)
In my busy-ness these days, it is so easy to lose sight of the "bigger picture" of salvation the readings today remind me of. I find my mind and energy scattered by the many, daily "to-do's" I accumulate for myself at home ...
The River City National Bank Case
(Creighton University, 1968)
River City is a major population center in a basically rural midwestern state. Its population growth rate has been significantly above the national average in recent years, and by the end of 1966, there were over 250,000 ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 22, 1998: 34th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1998-11-22)
In today's Gospel we are presented with the very moving image of Jesus hanging on the cross and being mocked by those around him. He makes no rebuke nor offers any retaliatory remark. He simply accepts what is said to him ...
Reflection for Saturday, November 21, 1998: 33rd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1998-11-21)
In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be?||Imagine ... imagine today's gospel passage as it might have been reported by an observer in that time ... |My friend and I went to the Temple today, trying to ...
Reflection for Sunday, November 22, 1998: Our Lord Jesus Christ The King, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1998-11-22)
And the people stood by, watching; but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!"||And [the other criminal] said, "Jesus, remember me when you ...
Reflection for Monday, November 23, 1998: 34th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1998-11-23)
"He [Jesus] looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury; he also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; for all ...