Category: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

Over the past few weeks since the tragic fires in California and the horrible plane accidents, we have felt a sense of sadness, grief and helplessness.  We can only imagine how desperate and sad those affected families must feel.  Their loss is tremendous. Such feelings are not unlike the feelings that Jairus and the woman…

As we know, this is Catholic Schools Week throughout the United States.  How wonderful to celebrate today the patron saint of all Catholic Schools and a highly revered member of our Dominican Order, St. Thomas Aquinas. Thomas was born in southern Italy in 1225 of noble descent, and at 5 years old his parents gave…

If a student walked into a classroom and announced to his peers, ‘there’s no class today’, the students would probably question him.  But if the teacher walked into the room and announced no class, he would probably be stampeded by the students rushing to leave.  The difference in responses is that the teacher had the…

There’s a lovely Portuguese proverb which says: “To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings.”  That proverb reflects the key message in our first reading today: “Love, then, consists in this: not that we have loved God, but that God has loved us.” That single,…