Category: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

How often, and how casually, we use the word ‘hope’ every day: I hope you feel better. I hope your company has a good time. I hope it gets cooler soon. Yes, we want everything to work out for us and those we love, but that’s not the meaning of Christian hope.  That hope, that…

Christ uses two familiar images in our gospel today.  The first is that of a child’s quality of humility that’s needed to enter the kingdom of heaven.  The second image is the importance of the life of the one sheep lost from the herd of one hundred. St. Clare, whose feast we celebrate today, certainly…

Max Lucado is a Christian author who uses his real-life experiences and homespun humor to share God’s message.  He tells the story of when he had to undergo a heart procedure.  The doctor explained that this cardiac ablation would cauterize and destroy the ‘misbehaving’ parts of his heart so that its beats would return to…

In our first reading we heard about the military conflicts being planned against Israel by its oppressors, terrifying plans which made “the heart of the king and the heart of the people tremble.”  It is the message of Isaiah to the king and the people at the end of the reading, however, that is important. …