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Reflection for Thursday, December 18, 2014: 3rd week in Advent..
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-12-18)
|In this third week of Advent the readings offer many promises of future justice that will be provided by God through an earthly king that lead up to a the Gospel promise of God's actual presence in our world. In the ...
Reflection for Tuesday, December 16, 2014: 3rd week in Advent..
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-12-16)
|Today's reading from Zephaniah reminds us that no matter how highly we think of ourselves, there is something greater in the universe than humanity. I fear that we, like the inhabitants of the city in Zephaniah's reading, ...
Reflection for Friday, December 19, 2014: 3rd week in Advent..
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-12-19)
|Today's readings focus on barrenness and the life that can spring from it. While the readings speak to the births of Samson and John, I can't help but think about another form of barrenness: how our spirits can be barren.|How ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 2, 2014: 8th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-03-02)
|Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb?| Even should she forget, I will never forget you. Isaiah 49 |Rest in God alone, my soul. Psalm 62 |No one can serve two masters.| But seek ...
Reflection for Tuesday, March 4, 2014: 8th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-03-04)
The phrase that caught my attention from today’s readings is “but, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct, for it is written, Be holy because I am holy.” ||This phrase started a ...
Reflection for March 5, 2014: Ash Wednesday.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-03-05)
| As I read and prayed over today's readings for Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season, I kept hearing the gentle but firm invitation to "come home!" "Come home to the One who loves you!"| As if I had been on ...
Reflection for Saturday, March 1, 2014: 7th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-03-01)
Whenever I read this Gospel, I think about how truly dependent children are---and about the wonderful freedom and joy they derive from that dependence. Jesus was trying to help his followers to see two points with respect ...
Reflection for Friday, February 28, 2014: 7th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-02-28)
“From the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one ...
Reflection for Wednesday, February 26, 2014: 7th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-02-26)
The message of Jesus is so very simple, but often I don’t want to hear it. Help the poor, love my enemies and don’t be so obsessed with wealth and power. All wonderful ideas and ones I cheer with my whole heart. Well, ...
Reflection for Monday, March 3, 2014: 8th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2014-03-03)
As a law professor, my job is to stick with the text in most situations, but as a priest, I sometimes think there might be something more beneath the surface. Today’s reading from Mark presents one of those occasions. ...