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Reflection for Tuesday, August 30, 2011: 22nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-08-30)
Into the Light||To live with eyes open takes faith. We learn early to screen out everything beyond the task at hand. With jobs in decline, our gaze grows even more shuttered. Fear alternates with forgetfulness. To be ...
Reflection for Friday, December 6, 2013: 1st week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-12-06)
Today is St. Nicholas Day. I am reminded of how much our responses are dependent on our background and context. I grew up in a very comfortable environment in the suburbs. The evening before St. Nicholas Day would involve ...
Reflection for Friday, December 3, 2010: Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier, Priest.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2010-12-03)
"Do you believe that I can do this?" Matthew 9||This is the central question of our Christian lives. To be a follower of Jesus, to accept what he offers us, and to accept our mission to make a difference by loving and ...
Reflection for Tuesday, September 3, 2013: 22nd week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-09-03)
A family I know had been faithfully attending to their seriously ill mother; they knew that death was imminent, yet when she finally died it was a surprise to them because, despite her compromised health, she seemed to be ...
Reflection for Friday, December 2, 2011: 1st week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2011-12-02)
Today is Friday of the First Week of Advent. This is a season of waiting, a time to live by faith, trusting that God will soon act on behalf of his people.||I have never been a very patient person. My mother used to rattle ...
Reflection for Friday, December 7, 2012: 1st week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-12-07)
Isaiah is a prophet, one who sees reality as God inspires him to and who then speaks of that reality as God impels him to. Here Isaiah speaks of the changes that God will operate, and he describes those changes in three ...
Reflection for Friday, December 4, 2015: 1st week in Advent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2015-12-04)
Just imagine the joy the people of Israel must have experienced when the prophet Isaiah told them that a new day was dawning. A day when the deaf shall hear and the blind shall see and the tyrant will be gone and the ...
Reflection for Friday, April 8, 2016: 2nd Week of Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-04-08)
John's story of Jesus feeding a large crowd is similar to Mark's story of Jesus feeding the five thousand. There are some details that differ but essentially they seem to set forth the same view of Jesus and his disciples. ...
Reflection for Friday, April 12, 2013: 2nd week in Easter.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2013-04-12)
Today's reading of the loaves and the fishes flooded me with memories from my formative years as I find this scripture one of the most accessible and vivid readings to a child. I remember times when I was amazed that Jesus ...
Reflection for Wednesday, November 7, 2012: 31st week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2012-11-07)
Following Jesus as his disciple is not easy - then or now!||In the gospels Jesus never left his followers with the impression that being his disciple would be easy. He realized that it would involve a radical break with ...