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Reflection for Friday, November 2, 2001: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2001)This is All Souls Day. We remember and honor so many more dead this year than last. Death is much closer this year.|When I was in college in the late 70's, I remember reading Charles de Foucauld's advice that we have death ... -
Reflection for Friday, November 2, 2007: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2007)Yesterday we celebrated "All Saints" day, a solemnity in our liturgy to remember and honor all those who have gone before us and are now in heaven.||Today we celebrate "All Souls" day, again to remember and honor those who ... -
Reflection for Friday, November 2, 2012: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2012)Nothing Lost||One of our great human fears is the fear of losing something/someone, or of being lost ourselves. Children fear when their parents seem far away; parents hold on tight to little hands lest they lose their ... -
Reflection for Monday, November 2, 2009: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2009)All Souls Day||And this is the will of the one who sent me that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day.|Today we celebrate All Souls Day.|We celebrate, reverence and ... -
Reflection for Saturday, November 2, 2002: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2002)Bittersweet.|That's what it said on the big package of chocolate I found one Saturday morning in the cabinet above my mother's oven. It looked like an overgrown chocolate bar and I was in a feeding mood so I decided to ... -
Reflection for Saturday, November 2, 2013: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2013)We have all been there. Sitting in church on a weekday at 10:00 a.m. waiting for the funeral of mother taken by cancer who left a husband to care for three small children, or a young relative so full of promise, who died ... -
Reflection for Sunday, November 2, 2003: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2003)So as to be more available to the graces flowing through these readings and this liturgy, we might, using our memories, call to mind the faces and personalities of those faithful who have been companions with us on our ... -
Reflection for Sunday, November 2, 2008: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2008)Sunday in Ordinary Time Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed PRE-PRAYERING|We have a little saying that when you get a lemon, you make lemonade. This means generally that when something sour or displeasing comes our ... -
Reflection for Thursday, November 2, 2006: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2006)The Consolations of the Day|"Where is he now?" I can remember asking myself that question as I looked at the lifeless body of a good friend who had died. Of course, by that time in my life I had prayed with many people who ... -
Reflection for Tuesday, November 2, 1999: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 1999)I feel very fortunate to have been chosen to write a daily reflection for this day, "All Souls Day." Recently, my wife's aunt passed away from a sudden heart attack. She was only 59. Although she had been having complications ... -
Reflection for Tuesday, November 2, 2004: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2004)When I was a boy my dad would recite a favorite verse many, many times. He had first seen it on a tombstone: "Remember me as you pass by. As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, one day you'll be. So stop and say a ... -
Reflection for Tuesday, November 2, 2010:Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2010)Every year on the 2nd of Novembers we commemorate "All the Faithful Departed." (All Souls Day) The Liturgy provides for priests who may wish to offer three Masses that day. Many people think that this is an exception made ... -
Reflection for Wednesday, November 2, 2005: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2005)Today we celebrate All Souls Day. Today is also one of the occasions when we confront our own mortality. When we think of and pray for those we have known and loved who have died, we are reminded that we too are going to ... -
Reflection for Wednesday, November 2, 2011: Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
(University Ministry, Creighton University.. Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 2011)"The souls of the just are in the hands of God and no torment shall touch them." Book of Wisdom ||Among the pictures on my refrigerator are the newspaper obit and photo of my lifelong academic/professional mentor and a ...