We welcome you to make use of the available resources. They are intended to support your prayer throughout the various times of the liturgical year and the varied times of your life. Additional resources will be added. If you in search of something specific that existed on the former Online Ministries site, you may access the archived site.

We welcome you to make use of the available resources. They are intended to support your prayer throughout the various times of the liturgical year and the varied times of your life. Additional resources will be added. If you in search of something specific that existed on the former Online Ministries site, you may access the archived site.

Creighton University’s Online Ministries endeavors to support and deepen individual and communal relationships with Jesus and animate the University’s Jesuit, Catholic mission through access to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Scripture reflections structured around the liturgical year, and myriad Ignatian prayer resources.

In 1998, when the worldwide web was just 8 years old, Online Ministries began. This site was the inspiration and labor of love of Fr. Andy Alexander, SJ, then vice president for mission who retired in spring 2025, and Maureen McCann Waldron, then director of collaborative ministries who retired in 2016. Today, the ministry is sustained by Creighton’s Division of Mission & Ministry and supported by dozens of Creighton University faculty, staff, Jesuits and retirees who serve as reflection writers.

We are blessed by and abundantly grateful for the global community who engages with this ministry. We pray it is a source of support and an avenue for grace in individuals’ and communities’ journeys with of faith and relationships with Christ.

Welcome 
to an experience of God’s Grace in the midst of our busy lives.

Be open and trust in a God who is not outdone in generosity.

We invite you to make a retreat designed to fit into the fullness of your day-to-day.  Experience a relationship with God coming alive in the midst of everyday life. Come to know a freedom and peace too often out of reach in the modern world.

A simple guide each week places themes, reflections, questions and desires into the background of our busy lives. We learn to find greater focus and to let one week build upon another.

Begin any time, but if we begin the week of September 14, 2025, the retreat fits with the Liturgical Year.

The brevity of today’s gospel can deceive us into thinking there is a simple message. And on the surface that is so. We are all members of God’s family. But family in and of itself is a complicated thing. 

We know from our own lived experiences that being in a family can be messy. As much as we can love our siblings and parents, they can be nosey, frustrating, unsympathetic… you name it. And even though one might have aged greatly when it comes to your family, your treatment can revert to your birth order, “Well she is the baby”, or “The oldest can decide that”. Like I said-- it’s complicated. 

This complexity comes from deep love and intimacy. These people have known you for your entire life and have been witness to all the good and not so good phases of your life. And therein lies the beauty of family.

In today’s gospel we are being called to delve into this same love and intimacy with God. We are being reminded that we are a part of a larger family that has unconditional love flowing from the center. And even though life is messy, and complicated, and difficult to grasp at times there is a place you can go and be seen and loved in all your imperfections. 

The challenge for us is to accept this membership and our other family members for their warts and flaws. Let us pray today to embrace the love and grace that comes with being a member of God’s family. Let’s practice acceptance and understanding as we work to love ourselves and others.