Category Archives: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

5 Lent, Struggling, 2023 Readings from: http://usccb.org/bible/readings/040919.cfm For you sports fans, the March Madness basketball championship will soon be ending.  One of the people who became known again during this basketball season is not, ironically, a player, but rather, a nun.  Sr. Jean Schmidt is the 103-year-old beloved chaplain of the Loyola University basketball team. …

I read in our bulletin the other day that the 10,000 Villages store on Park Avenue will be donating a portion of what we as parishioners purchase there next weekend to our own Fr. Charles Nabwana’s Holy Angels Orphanage and School in Uganda.  I hope we all will support this effort for the tremendous ministry…

Tuesday Reflection by Sr. Rosemary Fnnegan, O.P. Readings from: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031423.cfm The story is told of a Sunday school teacher who had just finished her lesson and wanted to make sure she had made her point to her young students. She said, “Can anyone tell me what you must do before you can obtain forgiveness of…

Tuesday Reflection from Sr. Rosemary Finnegan, O.P. Readings from: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030723.cfm Isaiah has a way of keeping things simple.  We heard Isaiah give us, with clear certainty, these instructions: Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; Cease doing evil; learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, Hear the…