Category: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

Although we’re well into the Jubilee Year, 2025, it was only recently that I took the time to notice the beautiful Jubilee logo and discover its meaning.  This logo consists of 4 stylized figures, one behind the other made to image them on a boat. Each figure is a different color, representing humanity from the…

From mint and dill to gnats and camels, today’s gospel finds Jesus using lots of familiar images of his time to make his message pretty clear to the Pharisees. The Jewish people knew the Torah commanded that, right off the top, a tenth of one’s livestock, fruit trees, grain and oil be presented to God. …

Our first reading today from Exodus refers to ‘the meeting tent’ which Moses always set up outside the camp site as the Israelites travelled across the desert to the Promised Land. It wasn’t like anything you’d get at a camping store, so what exactly was this mobile ‘meeting tent’, and what did it mean? First,…