This past fall, our new Creighton President, Fr. Daniel Hendrickson, chose a poem by the Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, to illuminate his role as servant president.  In the poem "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" the poet ...

Today's readings give us a clear message that the Lord is not happy with us if we are driven by fear rooted in lack of trust in God.  In fact, we are told, God rewards behavior that is bold and confident in His compassion. |In ...

The LORD called me from birth, from my mother's womb he gave me my name." Isaiah 49|The birth of a new baby brings family and friends together to congratulate the new parents and to rejoice in the hope that birth brings ...

By celebrating the event of Easter intensely for eight days and then steadily for a week of weeks (49 days) the Church wants to enable us to appreciate the infinite wonder that Easter represents in our Faith.  It is through ...

Humans communicate their thoughts and feelings for one another in various media that we talk about as symbolic.  Words, pictures, gestures, expressions and all kinds of things serve to express love and hate, reasoned thought ...

Today's liturgical celebration, which is a major feast day of the Church, provides a meditation itself even before we consider the readings and their wonderful images. What does it mean to celebrate this specific place?||The ...

Today’s liturgy is simply that of Monday in the Fourth Week of Ordinary Time, but the Church also honors St. Blaise with an optional memorial. An early Fourth Century Bishop of Armenia, Blaise was martyred even after the ...

Throughout the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, the one engaging the process of prayer is counseled to continuously ask for specific graces that he desires. But before he can desire something he has to see clearly ...

Yesterday afternoon was a glorious October day here on the border between Iowa and Nebraska _ in the heart of the heartland _ the very center of the U.S. "bread basket." The sun shone warm, the temperature a moderate ...

As many of us have been reminded by the Church, the season of Lent is first of all about preparing the catechumens for Baptism (birth into Christ life) and secondly about the rest of us who are already baptized, allowing ...