Category: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

As he stood on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica while we waited to hear what his first words to us would be, our new Pope Leo chose to deliver the message that our Lord uttered so often to his followers: “Peace I leave with you.” It is the same message we hear in our…

A wise, discerning Barnabas in our first reading, a teaching Jesus in our gospel, 3 humble children of Fatima whose feast we celebrate today, and a new Pope we’re stilling rejoicing about… What do they all have in common?  The clue is in our gospel today when Jesus tells the Jews: “My sheep hear my…

Perhaps some of you, like myself, were fortunate enough to experience the 2nd graders receiving their very First Communion last weekend.  If you weren’t there, you can imagine it. Precious 7-year-olds…girls dressed in their beautiful white dresses and boys in their grown-up looking suits that, I’m sure, have been hanging and waiting in their closets…

Last Saturday, the core of who we are as a universal Catholic Church was on full display during Pope Francis beautiful funeral.  Throngs of people of every generation, from many countries and numerous backgrounds gathered together to honor Francis in one spirit of love and gratitude.   It was an incredible visual witness of wanting to…