Category: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

If you had grown up in our Finnegan Catholic Household, you would have had a rosary and learned to say it.  All 9 of us kids had one and they were prominent in May when we’d say the rosary at our homemade May altar.  And if we couldn’t sleep, we’d go downstairs hoping to stay…

To borrow a title from Charles Dickens, our Gospel passage today could easily be referred to as “A Tale of Two Cities”.  One city was Samaria, the other Jerusalem. Both were cities in Israel, but there was deep religious hatred between them because the Jews in Samaria had intermarried with those non-Jews who had conquered…

Often when we celebrate a beloved saint of our church, it is usually someone who lived centuries ago.  Today, however, we remember Padre Pio, also known as Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, who lived in our 20th century and died on Sept. 23, 1968. He was born in Italy in 1887 to a poor farming family…

When he died, a big part of her died too.  He was her only son, and she was also a widow.  Now she was alone; imagine her pain.  We hear about her in our gospel, but we don’t hear much.  What was her name and how long had she been a widow?  How did her…