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Reflection for Sunday, August 13, 2017: 19th Week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2017-08-13)
One of the results of growing older and striving to live by faith is that my views of God have changed. As a child, God was like my father in the flesh – quiet, aloof, seemingly uninterested in my day-to-day life, and quite ...
Reflection for Sunday, December 10, 2017: 2nd Week of Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2017-12-10)
Advent has only three full weeks this year. Christmas Eve's being on a Sunday means that the fourth week is only a short few hours. "So", we say-pray, "Better get with the program." We wish sincerely that we could be ...
Reflection for Monday, December 11, 2017: 2nd Week of Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2017-12-11)
Do yourself a favor this Advent season and just sit and savor today's first reading. The more times I read it, the richer it became. It pointed me in so many different directions. But no matter which path I followed, ...
Reflection for Saturday, August 20, 2016: 20th Week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-08-20)
The Gospel lesson for today sets forth Jesus' teaching about life together in his kingdom. Because the Church is made up of human beings, there will be the temptation to strive for positions of power and prestige. Jesus ...
Reflection for Saturday, July 2, 2016: 13th Week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-07-02)
The Old Way and the New (Mt 9:14-17)|In today's Gospel, Matthew narrates a wonderful episode in which Jesus targets Pharisaical legalism with three sharp metaphors. The disciples of John the Baptist had come to ask Jesus, ...
Reflection for Tuesday, October 20, 2020: 29th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2020-10-20)
|In the first reading today, Paul is in effect explaining to the Ephesians that all who are believers, Jews and Gentiles alike, are saved and are part of the same spiritual family. In Paul's time, there was anti-Gentile ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 8, 1999: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 1999-08-08)
Peter got out of the boat and began to walk on the water toward Jesus.|But when he saw how strong the wind was he became frightened; and, beginning to sink, he cried out, "Lord, save me!"|Peter's encounter with Jesus is ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 10, 2008: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2008-08-10)
PRE-PRAYERING | Adjectives come in three forms. The simple describes a person or thing as it is. The comparative describes a person or thing in contrast to another particular person or thing. The superlative describes a ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 11, 2002: 19th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2002-08-11)
For a more prayerful reception of the Word of God in this Sunday's liturgy, try to remember the noise of a storm in which you heard windows rattle, trees slap their leaves together, waves test the shore and thunder announce ...
Reflection for Sunday, July 12, 2015: 15th week in Ordinary Time..
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-07-12)
"Jesus summoned the twelve and he sent them off two by two . . ."|The work of God is not a solitary affair. This is very apparent from the first line of the gospel story today. But we also have other examples. In the ...