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Faculty Seminar on Jesuit Higher Education in the 21st Century
(Creighton University, 2012-02-02)
The Seminar has offered well over a hundred faculty and administrators an extended opportunity to explore the distinct challenges and gifts of being a Catholic, Jesuit University. In the year-long project of study and ...
Reflection for Thursday, March 25, 2010 :Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-03-25)
In the Feast of the annunciation, the Church celebrates the wondrous proclamation of the fullness of God's saving will. The rich banquet of biblical texts assigned to today's Mass provides extraordinary insight into the ...
Reflection for Friday, March 25, 2011: Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-03-25)
It is always a striking juxtaposition to celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation in the heart of the Lenten fast. In the midst of the desert we come upon this wondrous feast with all its Christmas resonance. But if we paid ...
Reflection for Thursday, April 29, 2004: 3rd week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-04-29)
Today's liturgy invites us to a lovely banquet of meditation on God's intentional presence and dynamic formative activity in our lives. One focus from both the readings and the memorial celebrated serves nicely to come ...
Reflection for Friday, February 20, 2009: 6th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2009-02-20)
In the Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises Saint Ignatius' presents a meditation on the Two Standards as a prayer that invites the spiritual person to examine the method and consequences of self aggrandizement vs the ...
Reflection for Wednesday, December 15, 2004: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2004-12-15)
Today it is cold and gray where I live. There is little that appears to be alive. The trees are stripped bare, all flowers and foliage are thoroughly frozen. Underfoot, what was green grass just a scant few weeks ago, is ...
Reflection for Tuesday, July 26, 2005: 17th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-07-26)
Today's liturgy offers us the paradox of God's intimacy or nearness, and the overwhelming power of God's glory.||In the memorial of Anne and Joachim, which tradition identifies as the parents of Mary and Grandparents of ...
Reflection for Monday, November 22, 2010: Memorial of St. Cecilia.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-11-22)
Meditating on the readings and the subject of today's liturgical festival brought up three disparate insights that may be connected - they certainly point to the need for further reflection in my own life.||The Feast of ...
Reflection for Monday, October 11, 2010: 28th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-10-11)
Back in 1978, the German Theologian, Karl Rahner, SJ, published a text in which he placed himself in the "voice" of St. Ignatius Loyola speaking to the human community of the 20th Century. It is an imaginative and daring ...
Reflection for Wednesday, April 6, 2005: 2nd week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-04-06)
Some years ago, while giving a parish workshop on the liturgical year, I asked the group how they celebrate each of the major liturgical seasons. We spent much time on Advent and Christmas and even more time on Lent, but ...