"Dear Lord,|I'm offering you this day. Please help me to get through it. Please keep the kids and my husband safe and help me get everything done that I have to do."||It's early in the morning and I'm up walking, saying ...

When Secretary of State George Marshall was trying to persuade Congress to appropriate billions of dollars for the Marshall Plan to re-build Europe after World War II, a senator asked him a seemingly softball question.|| ...

Today's readings ask us to do something wildly out of character for Americans two days from Christmas - slow down to listen for the voice of God. That's a tall order amidst the shopping, wrapping, cleaning and baking to ...

"We are afflicted in every way but not constrained; perplexed but not driven to despair; persecuted but not abandoned; struck down but not destroyed." ||As I read these beautiful lines from St. Paul, two members of my ...

I'm very moved by today's familiar parable because this is the feast of St. Ignatius and it speaks so eloquently to our Ignatian mission, the reason places like Creighton exist. |I've been on an Ignatian pilgrimage of sorts ...

"There was a prophetess, Anna ... " Luke|The prophetess Anna rates just one mention in Luke as she thanks God for the birth of Jesus and tells people at the Temple about his importance. I love this passage because I ...

"For a brief moment I abandoned you but with great tenderness I will take you back. In an outburst of wrath for a moment I hid my face from you; But with enduring love I take pity on you, says the LORD, your redeemer."||Today ...

Student Daily Reflection "Mary Magdalene ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them ... " John 20||As I thought about these readings on the feast of St. John, a startling question ...

"You sent me something for my needs, not only once but more than once. It is not that I am eager for the gift; rather I am eager for the profit that accrues to your account." Philippians||It's too bad that St. Paul was ...

"The souls of the just are in the hands of God and no torment shall touch them." Book of Wisdom ||Among the pictures on my refrigerator are the newspaper obit and photo of my lifelong academic/professional mentor and a ...