PRE-PRAYERING | We pray with consequences of last-weekend's liturgical readings. There was a miraculous feeding of many with apparently little. As we make our individual and communal ways toward this weekend's celebration, ...

The first principle Jesus gives is that those who would teach others must practice what they preach. This was brought home to me very forcefully at my diaconal ordination when the archbishop handed me the book of the Gospel ...

"Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."||As I handed back my first ever set of news reporting assignments at Creighton years ago, I told a student to see me after class, plainly ...

A friend of mine talks about his grandmother, an immigrant from Ireland. She never gave compliments saying that her loved ones didn't need to be "getting a big head." Her attitude might sound harsh, but it wasn't from a ...

PRE-PRAYERING |We pray these days as people on a journey. We are one form of God's really being present. We have eaten of the Bread of Life, Jesus, both in the Eucharist and in our acceptance of him as the One Who Has Been ...

|The road imagery in the first reading resonated with me as I just came off two 20-hour bus rides from Omaha to Washington, D.C. and back. The trip took a group of  nearly 60 Creighton students, faculty and staff to the ...

PRE-PRAYERING | We are preparing to be prepared for Christmas these days of Advent. This Second Sunday of Advent we pray for a listening heart to hear the words of comfort and call. We pray for a stillness around us a ...

Since my return almost two weeks ago from visiting El Salvador, I am struck almost daily by how very blessed I am and so many of us are. We have homes- very comfortable homes with heaters, and many times, air conditioning. ...

Ah, the joy of Advent.|| Even though I am writing this reflection before the season starts, the first reading is sort of like being a kid again and catching that first breath of ocean air and knowing that you're almost to ...

Advent Prayer for the Immaculate Conception|A highway will be there, called the holy way; ... It is for those with a journey to make, and on it the redeemed will walk.|Isaiah's powerful description of the homecoming of the ...