Category: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

Most of us are curious about angels, and children are no exception. Here are a couple of comments from children about angels: Mitchell comments: “Angels work for God and watch over kids when God has to go do something else.”  And then there’s poor Henry: “My guardian angel helps me with math, but he's not much good…

As most of you know, my faithful, fun, and wise mother died 3 weeks ago, and I thank you for your prayers and support that you’ve shown to me and my siblings.  And, today, this feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, makes me think of Mom again, for both Our Lady and my mother lost…

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…