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, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

I have lived my whole life in Omaha, Nebraska, a place in the middle of the United States with discernible, if not exasperating, climactic seasons.  We have extremes, at times within the span of hours and days, between ...

|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 ...

|In reflecting on today's readings, I can't seem to get the words of the Psalm out of my mind: "The Lord speaks of peace to his people." Not only are they beautiful, lyrical words, but the message they convey is also one ...

" ... for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour."|To capture the good news of today's readings, we must look at Luke's gospel verses preceding and following today's reading. In the opening verses of chapter 12, ...

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, ...

"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 ...

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 ...