PRE-PRAYERING | The Eucharist is a "Thanksgiving Sacrifice" in which we join the thanksgiving life, death and resurrection of Jesus and in which we ask to be made an "ever-lasting gift" to God. In our celebration of the ...

PRE-PRAYERING | The Eucharist is a "Thanksgiving Sacrifice" in which we join the thanksgiving death of Jesus and in which we ask to be made an "ever-lasting gift" to God. In our celebration of the Eucharistic Liturgy, we ...

There is a little phrase we use to describe someone getting caught in the act; we say, "He got caught with his hand in the cookie jar." One time I literally had this happen.||I was in a small kitchen in a Jesuit house and ...

A PONDERING||Virtuous acts are seldom accompanied By the feeling of that virtue.|A rose is a rose; a feeling is just a feeling. People often confess their being impatient and so experience being unvirtuous. I ask them if ...

We who teach here at Creighton University are asked often about what exactly will be on the exam or whether this chapter will be part of the next test. What is expected? What are the precise requirements? The students would ...

PRE-PRAYERING|We pray in expectation of the weekend's liturgy with our desires to reverence the One and Holy God Who invites us to share that holiness. This Creating God labors to bring more order and life into the human ...

PRE-PRAYERING | These past weekdays we have celebrated the memory of All the Saints as well as prayed with the memories of the souls now departed. These liturgies have been also a preparation for our celebration of the ...

PRE-PRAYERING || These past weekdays we have celebrated the memory of All the Saints as well as prayed with the memories of the souls now departed. These liturgies have been also a preparation for our celebration of the ...

PRE-PRAYERING | We are invited by the readings for this Sunday to believe that to grieve will lead us to be comforted. There are many things in our Christian tradition which invite us to trust that which we can not see. ...

It has always been assumed that being wise also meant being learned. Those of us who are less learned assumed also that wisdom had not visited our door.||The First Reading of today's liturgy pictures wisdom as a radiant ...