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Reflection for Friday, January 12, 2018: 1st Week of Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2018-01-12)
"Time flies," even in the liturgical year. We have only thirty-three days until Valentine's Day, so we can save any Christmas candy left over for treating our beloved friends. Ah, but alas, Valentine's Day this year is ...
Reflection for Sunday, June 21, 2020: 12th week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2020-06-21)
|The last Sunday we celebrated in Ordinary Time was February twenty-third and then came Lent, followed by Easter Time and then the two special solemnities of the Holy Trinity and The Body and Blood of Jesus. So we are back ...
A Talk by Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. on Shame
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2009)
Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. gave this wonderful talk on Shame. It can be a great help to all of us who seem to devalue ourselves, who tend to not feel that anything about us is good enough, who struggle to accept ourselves and ...
Reflection for Thursday, August 17, 2017: 19th Week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2017-08-17)
You could wonder a bit about what it means exactly to forgive seventy times seven. Perhaps the 491st time you can seek revenge or refuse mercy. That's okay, I guess, if you are interested in loopholes and being meticulous ...
Reflection for Sunday, March 5, 2017: 1st Week of Lent.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2017-03-05)
In our First Reading for this liturgy, we hear of one garden, two newly-minted beings and two trees surrounded by various varieties of flora and fauna. Ah yes, I forgot about the serpent. How did it slither in without ...
Reflection for Thursday, June 21, 2018: 11th Week of Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2018-06-21)
Today there are two sets of Scripture Readings for the Eucharistic Liturgy. There is the Gospel reading for Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time from Matthew presenting an instruction on prayer and especially ...
Reflection for Monday, August 15, 2016: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-08-15)
It is not merely an assumption that Mary's Assumption into heaven, body and soul is a fact. This doctrine of the Catholic Church is ancient and was held true by the earliest followers in the Church. There was a tomb and a ...
Reflection for Sunday, August 28, 2016: 22nd Week in Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2016-08-28)
"Excuse me" has several meanings in polite company. It is used when bumping into somebody accidentally. It is employed to interrupt somebody who is speaking and the listener wishes to interject a thought or two. It is ...
Reflection for Sunday, July 22, 2018: 16th Week of Ordinary Time.
(University Ministry, Creighton University., 2018-07-22)
A few years ago one of my younger nephews was traveling with his siblings and their mother. While pulling out of a drive-in restaurant, with French fries on his lap, a hamburger in one hand and a malt in the other, he asked ...
A Lenten Retreat by Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. (Year A)
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2008)
INTRODUCTORY CONFERENCE|Lent, spring, and the Spiritual life have this in common; each is a tug of war. Spring is tugging at winter to let go. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius are directed at our becoming more ...