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Reflection for Sunday, November 2, 2008: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-11-02)
Sunday in Ordinary Time Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed PRE-PRAYERING|We have a little saying that when you get a lemon, you make lemonade. This means generally that when something sour or displeasing comes our ...
Reflection for Monday, November 2, 2009: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-11-02)
All Souls Day||And this is the will of the one who sent me that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day.|Today we celebrate All Souls Day.|We celebrate, reverence and ...
Reflection for Wednesday, November 2, 2011: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-11-02)
"The souls of the just are in the hands of God and no torment shall touch them." Book of Wisdom ||Among the pictures on my refrigerator are the newspaper obit and photo of my lifelong academic/professional mentor and a ...
Reflection for Tuesday, November 2, 2010:Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-11-02)
Every year on the 2nd of Novembers we commemorate "All the Faithful Departed." (All Souls Day) The Liturgy provides for priests who may wish to offer three Masses that day. Many people think that this is an exception made ...
Reflection for Saturday, November 2, 2013: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-11-02)
We have all been there. Sitting in church on a weekday at 10:00 a.m. waiting for the funeral of mother taken by cancer who left a husband to care for three small children, or a young relative so full of promise, who died ...
Reflection for Friday, November 2, 2012: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-11-02)
Nothing Lost||One of our great human fears is the fear of losing something/someone, or of being lost ourselves. Children fear when their parents seem far away; parents hold on tight to little hands lest they lose their ...
Reflection for Friday, November 3, 2000: 30th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-11-03)
One side effect of my father's illness is his suffering from a filling up of fluids in his body. It's called edema, or "dropsy." So I have a vivid image of Jesus looking at this man across the table from him, suffering ...
Reflection for Saturday, November 3, 2001: 30th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-11-03)
"For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."||A well known novice master and missionary gave a retreat to Jesuit Scholastics in St. Louis. He told us that if we want to ...
An essay on predictability in choice-of-law doctrine and implications for a Third Conflicts Restatement
(2016)
Both Restatements of the Conflict of Laws have been controversial. The First, completed in 1934, enshrined territorial rules, such as the law of the place of the injury (lex loci delicti) governing tort cases. The First ...
Reflection for Sunday, June 26, 2011: Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-06-26)
PRE-PRAYERING||We show our appreciation for musical and dramatic renditions by enthusiastic applause which can go on just a certain length of time. Who decides when the applause should begin to die down and cease? We all ...