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Reflection for April 4, 2012: Wednesday of Holy Week.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-04-04)
"Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me."||Today's gospel is a most intimate scene. Jesus and his closest followers gather around the table for Passover. This family ritual was likely a cherished part of their Jewish ...
Reflection for April 5, 2007: Holy Thursday.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2007-04-05)
Today as I write this, our campus is reeling from the shock of losing a member of our Jesuit community. In the middle of last night, Fr. Don Driscoll, S.J. had a heart attack and died. He was a beloved priest, a warm and ...
Reflection for Tuesday, April 8, 2003: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-04-08)
Today's readings show us as the Cranky People of God. In the first reading from Numbers, the Israelites are being led to safety and salvation, out of exile in Egypt and toward their homeland. The journey is long and ...
Reflection for February 13, 2013: Ash Wednesday .
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-02-13)
When I was in grade school, I remember Ash Wednesday as a melancholy day. The sisters who taught us were unusually somber and whispery to us that day. It felt like Ash Wednesday, with its marked foreheads and meager meals, ...
Reflection for Monday, April 29, 2013: 5th week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-04-29)
Today's first reading from Acts opens with Paul and Barnabas fleeing from Iconium because the people are about to attack them with stones. In the next paragraph we see the two in Lystra, where the townspeople think they ...
Reflection for Friday, April 11, 2008: 3rd week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-04-11)
A special gathering with family and friends often centers around food. Certainly any one of us could eat alone, using food as the fuel that will keep us going. But it is at a table filled with love and companionship as ...
Reflection for Saturday, March 24, 2001 :Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2001-03-24)
A very wise Jesuit priest once listened to me talk about how I pray and asked me, "Where is the focus of your prayer - on you or on God?" I realized that I often prayed for what I wanted from God but rarely prayed to find ...
Reflection for Thursday, February 17, 2000: 6th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2000-02-17)
"You are not judging by God's standards but by man's!" Mark 8:33|Several years ago, a group of American attorneys and judges went on a religious retreat to the Dominican Republic. Part of the retreat included being hosted ...
Reflection for Monday, February 20, 2012: 7th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-02-20)
"As Jesus came down from the mountain with Peter, James, John ..." It is this first line that makes the story "shocking." Peter, James and John had just come from the vision of Jesus transfigured before them. Moses and ...
Reflection for Tuesday, September 15, 2009: 24th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-09-15)
" . . . and you yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."||Sometimes we come across people who have a special quality - an ability to listen deeply; a sense of peace in their lives; ...