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Reflection for Friday, December 16, 2011: 3rd week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-12-16)
We sit in what seems to be a growing darkness in the world, and we increasingly recognize that we are helpless to truly change our situation. Whether we be Christians or not, we almost literally await a savior from elsewhere, ...
Reflection for Saturday, December 26, 1998: Feast of St. Stephen, first martyr.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1998-12-26)
Note: the original web page lists the first reading as Galatians 1:6-12|Jesus says that we will be called to give witness on his account, and the terms that he uses imply that this will be in outstanding circumstances --- ...
Reflection for Friday September 20, 2019: 24th Week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2019-09-20)
This is a very curious gospel passage since Luke turns the spotlight, as it were, away from Christ for a moment and it is the women who accompanied Him who take center stage.|They were not simply groupies; they were ...
Reflection for Saturday, November 27, 2010: 34th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-11-27)
This gospel, the last of the liturgical year, is aimed at our attachment to the things of this life and our focus on them, at what is both literally and metaphorically our clinging to such things. Jesus asks that instead ...
Reflection for Friday, February 18, 2005: 1st week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-02-18)
If I had a small child, maybe 3 or 4 years old, who was very, very well-behaved, who never got dirty, who never asked for anything or questioned anything whatsoever, and who was nothing but completely obedient at all ...
Reflection for February 19, 1999: Friday after Ash Wednesday.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-02-19)
Scripture is a very special form of writing, a letter from faith groups in the past to us in the future. One person wrote down ideas or stories important to him or her in terms of their relationship to God, and that very ...
Reflection for Monday, April 8, 2002 :Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-04-08)
Today the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Annunciation, postponed for two weeks because this year the traditional date of March 25th fell on Monday of Holy Week. I personally would prefer to consider this the ...
Reflection for Monday, April 11, 2005: 3rd week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2005-04-11)
You can get a real insight into who a person is by asking who their heroes are.||For some people, those heroes are very material: they are known and celebrated for their successes in sports, entertainment, politics, finance, ...
Reflection for Friday, April 11, 2003: 5th week in Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2003-04-11)
In today's Gospel reading Jesus offers us a glimpse of what his union with the Father in the Spirit is, speaks of being in the Father and the Father being in him, and the evangelist then says that Jesus "eluded their grasp." ...
Reflection for Wednesday, February 15, 2012: 6th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-02-15)
I doubt that what I have to say would fit with a deeper exegesis of Mark's gospel, but there is still something here worth considering.|Jesus leads the blind man aside, so different from what He usually does, and then He ...