I recently attended a meeting of faculty and staff here at Creighton, to talk about how each of us works towards the mission of the University. We talked for about an hour, after which one of the erudite Jesuits spoke up: ...

I like trying to imagine what it must have been like to be a disciple, a follower of Jesus during his life. These often seemingly common men and women accomplished great things, and the gospels often show their very human ...

The gospel reading for today is a wonderfully familiar passage. We call it the story of the "prodigal son" with the main characters of the tale being a father and his two sons. The younger one gets his father to divide the ...

St. Francis Borgia, the third general of the Society of Jesus, and a personal friend of St. Ignatius, was one of the wealthiest and most influential men of the late 16th Century. He was a virtuous member of a Renaissance ...

"The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart," proclaims the responsorial psalm. "The law of the Lord is perfect," writes the psalmist. Because of this, Erza the scribe encouraged the people to celebrate when the law ...

aThere is a store near my home that sells nothing but angels: old angels, young angels, big angels, small angels, cheap angels, very expensive angels. Today's readings appear to be about those angels, until we remember ...

At first glance, today's readings portray a Jesus who's a bit difficult to recognize. Here one reads of a Jesus laying down the law in no uncertain terms. In sending out pairs of what today we might call advance men, he ...

"Whatever happened to the Ten Commandments?" Well today they are back in full array. They deserve a prayerful consideration more than our saying that we have heard that already. We will hear God's wisdom which befuddles ...

So as to be more available to the gracious invitations offered to us in the liturgy's readings, picture your local church building. Immediately inside the main doors, you notice something new. To the right are the familiar ...

PREPRAYING || We pray for the desire to overcome our sins by prayer, fasting, and works of mercy. Prayer will reduce us to our baptismal dignity. We pray so as to hear more clearly our baptismal name and mission.|Fasting ...