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Our Mission | The Society of JesusOur mission is one of justice and reconciliation, working so that women and men can be reconciled with God, with themselves, with each other and with God’s creation.
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Makerspace | Creighton University LibrariesThe Makerspace is a creative technology workspace where you can access tools for design, making and learning. You can use 3D printers, vector cutters, laser cutters, vacuum formers, and more to bring your imagination to life while you explore some of the latest tools for creation.
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Deglman Center for Ignatian Spirituality | Creighton UniversityAt the Deglman Center for Ignatian Spirituality, we educate students, faculty, staff and friends of Creighton University, supporting their personal growth. We do this by sharing the gifts of the Spiritual Exercises and Ignatian Spirituality through spiritual direction, retreats and workshops.
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The smells of Creighton | Creighton University Alumni and Friends NewsFather Larry Gillick, SJ, is blind. But every day, he says, he "sees" Creighton. To show us what Creighton looks like to him, he gave us a campus tour like no other — a tour of touch and sound but mostly of smell.
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An Omaha Jesuit’s collection of fables and related items is second to none | Jesuits MagazineFather Gregory Carlson, SJ, learned the value of play from his father, who ran the toy department in a large department store in Milwaukee. “I still play,” says Fr. Carlson, whose fable collection at Creighton University features more than 10,000 books and 6,000 unique objects. “Fables play,” he says. “As we engage them, we play our way into understanding.”
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Carlson Fables Collection | Creighton University ArchivesCollection of 10,000 books and 4,000 fable related objects, curated by Fr. Greg Carlson S.J.
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Cards from La Fontaine's Fables | Carlson Fables Collection | Creighton University Archives6 cards each stamped with the scene it portrays. R. & C. Sabatier in the larger format of a post card. $19.50 from Alexandre Prozopiorski, Lyon, July, '99.
"The more I see of these designs, the more I like them. They play with the fables. As far as I can tell, there is little or no difference from the stamps themselves. The result is that one can see here in larger scale what happens on the smaller stamp." -
Aesop's Fables: Lifelong Lessons for Life & Faith
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Illuminate the truth of the gospels by exploring timeless fables. Fables delight us and teach us the most important lessons about our lives. As this retreat shows, they also illuminate the message of the Gospel. You will join one of the leading experts on fables on a 12-part retreat that uses the fables of Aesop, Fontaine, and others to help you deepen and enjoy your Christian spiritual life. Underneath their seemingly simple narratives, fables demonstrate the most universal themes of existence. Your presenter is Rev. Gregory Carlson, a Jesuit priest, professor, and the founder of the Fable Collection at Creighton University. His delightful renditions of such timeless Aesop stories as "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Fox and the Grapes" will draw you in and delight you. As you explore these fables, you will come to a deeper spirituality of gratitude and fuller image of God. Steeped in the tradition of Ignatian spirituality, Rev. Carlson invites you to discernment in your daily life. You will also explore the dynamics of the Ignatian Two Standards. As you explore the fables, you will discover novel and engaging methods of understanding humility. You will look at the ways in which the Christian life is magnified by Aesop's fables, but you will also see how the Gospel expounds on virtues that are sometimes absent in fables. If you are looking to deepen your spiritual life while enjoying delightful stories, you will love this engaging retreat.
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Homer's Odyssey 101: How to Understand the Greatest Epic Ever Written
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Discover fresh insights into one of the greatest works of literature ever composed: Homer's Odyssey. Why does this ancient epic poem continue to mesmerize us? You're undoubtedly familiar with the Odyssey in some form, whether you read it in school or saw an adaptation. Now, this exciting series invites you to read Homer's text with new eyes. Under the guidance of award-winning presenter Fr. Gregory Carlson, the Western world's most engaging story comes alive again with all its poetry, drama, and action. As you move through the Odyssey book by book, you will gain profound insights into Homer's artistry. With breathtaking liveliness, Fr. Carlson will lead you through Odysseus' spectacular journey. As you voyage through various fantastic lands, you'll encounter sea monsters and sirens, gods and giants, and a colorful cast of characters. Fr. Carlson brings familiar stories alive by drawing out their implications and challenges for the unusual hero Odysseus. If you think of Odysseus as just another ancient hero, you will find yourself surprised, as Homer reveals this man step by step as distinctive and remarkably modern. As Fr. Carlson brings the poem to life, you will come to see that it is not just about adventures: the poem itself is an adventure. Indeed, Homer will challenge your perceptions about success, women, friendship, and human identity. Odysseus was born for challenges, and this course in turn invites you to challenge yourself. Follow Odysseus on his journey today.
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Retreat in the Real World : finding intimacy with God wherever you are: A Self-Guided Ignatian Experience
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What if you could experience a personal retreat in the truest sense of the word personal: on your own time, in your own way, in a location of your choosing? With Retreat in the Real World by Andy Alexander, SJ, and Maureen McCann Waldron, a personal Ignatian retreat is literally no farther away than your fingertips. This 34-week retreat can be started at any point in the calendar year, can be done anywhere, and can be experienced on your own or in conjunction with others. nbsp; Each of the weeks includes background information, a simple reflection, prayer helps, and Scripture readings, along with beautiful photography by Don Doll, SJ. This highly popular personal retreat was originally offered online through Creighton University's Online Ministries.
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A Retreat with the Spiritual Exercises: Images, Poems, and Stories
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This unique retreat will delight your imagination and inspire your soul. In our busy, modern society, we can often get caught up in the tumult of our day-to-day lives. Now, Jesuit Father Gregory Carlson invites you on a truly one-of-a-kind retreat experience to help you awaken your spirituality. Using the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola as his foundation, Fr. Carlson has crafted a distinctive and lively retreat for you to enjoy. A prize-winning literature teacher with decades of experience as a retreat leader and spiritual director, Fr. Carlson integrates poems, literature, and fables into his retreat to create a truly captivating experience. He possesses both a sense of childlike wonder and a deep reverence for God that will guide your spirituality. You will look at the major turning points of the Exercises as well as richly imaginative presentations on Jesus' life. You will also encounter a richly diverse tapestry of poems, anecdotes, and creative visual aids. Using subjects from Gerard Manley Hopkins to the fables of Aesop, you will deepen your spirituality in surprising and delightful ways. Retreats are essential to the spiritual life, and you can experience this retreat wherever and whenever you desire. You will treasure Fr. Carlson's intellectual richness, imaginative stimulus, and personal transparency.
Publication Date: 2013
Mission Week Keynotes
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The big issue for us is from what or where do we get our value, our name. Is a good tree good because it bears good fruit, or is it good because it does what it should, bear fruit? When we doubt our goodness, we will try to earn what we don’t have, a sense of goodness within us. We have to earn it and of course it is fleeting and will have to be re-earned tomorrow. We are then as good only as our last performance. A thing does what it is. Who we are will be reflected, not only by what we do, but the manner, the spirit with which we do.
- Rev. Larry Gillick, SJ, from Names, part of the 2015 Glimpses series
2025 Mission Week
This year’s theme, Finding Joy, Friendship and Mission at Creighton, builds on the 2024 theme, Companions in Mission, reflecting our opportunity to be co-collaborators in animating the worldwide mission of the Society of Jesus.
Makerspace Mission Week Key Tag Workshop
Celebrate this year's Mission Week with the CU Libraries Makerspace, located in the Reinert-Alumni Memorial Library on the Omaha campus.
Stop by to personalize a button or wooden coin throughout Mission Week during drop-in hours, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., or sign up for one of four scheduled workshop to make your own acrylic keychain. Plan for 40-60 minutes for each session. Students, faculty, and staff welcome.
About the Keynotes
The Rev. Larry Gillick, SJ, and the Rev. Greg Carlson, SJ, will participate in a lively group discussion titled “Finding Joy, Friendship and Mission” on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 7 p.m. CDT in the Harper Center, Hixson-Lied Auditorium. Joining Frs. Gillick and Carlson in this conversation will be recent Creighton graduate Cassidy Nipp, BSN’25, and administrator Michele Bogard, PhD. Bogard has been at Creighton for more than 24 years and currently serves as associate vice provost for Student Life, while Nipp is a pediatric nurse at Children’s Nebraska in Omaha and a running companion for Fr. Gillick, who is blind.
Fr. Gillick and Fr. Carlson both joined Creighton in 1979, but the Milwaukee natives have known each other since their days at Marquette University High School together in the late 1950s.
“Our Jesuit superior missioned us to create something special at Creighton,” says Fr. Carlson. “We did, and the creating together has gone on ever since.”
“Yes, we were missioned to create something new. Here’s another new, creative thing: We found a beautiful fraternal friendship,” says Fr. Gillick. “That friendship has created me as more of a man for Creighton’s mission.”
“I look forward to lively conversation among the four of us and with the people who come,” adds Fr. Carlson. “Besides, I never know what Fr. Gillick will say!”
Fr. Carlson entered the Jesuits in 1959, and Fr. Gillick would do the same one year later, in 1960. Fr. Gillick was ordained in 1972, and Fr. Carlson in 1974. Together, they have combined for more than 130 years of service as Jesuits.
In 1979, both came to Creighton – Fr. Gillick as spiritual director for Jesuit scholastics and Fr. Carlson to teach literature and create a seminary for the humanities education of younger Jesuits.
Today, Fr. Gillick serves as director of the Deglman Center for Ignatian Spirituality, while Fr. Carlson, an award-winning faculty member, is an avid collector of Aesop’s Fables, with more than 11,100 books and thousands of related objects housed at Creighton. Both offer spiritual direction and guidance, as a team and individually.
Courtesy of Creighton University Communications. https://www.creighton.edu/news/mission-week-conversation-joy-friendship-and-mission
Rev. Gillick & Rev. Carlson | Creighton University
Carlson Fables Collection
One of Fr. Greg Carlson's passions is fables. Fables often use animals to move us from awareness to attitude. A fable invites the listener to become more aware of himself/herself. Fr. Carlson has been collecting fables for over thirty years.
Now the Carlson Fable Collection includes over 8200 books and 4000 fable related objects, titled "Aesop's Artifacts" here. This may be the largest -- perhaps the only -- online collection of fable related objects. There are segments of stories to read and over 3500 images to see!
Pictured: "Le Lièvre et la Tortue" shows the tortoise breaking the finish-line tape while the hare chases a butterfly with a net. From the fable "The Tortoise and the Hare." See the link below to view the full item details and other cards in this set!
