Category Archives: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

Show Up – Step Up – Speak Up

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…
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Patron Saint of Catholic Schools

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…
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Hope

A few years ago, when we were on our parish pilgrimage to France visiting the beautiful village where St. Margaret Mary lived, we met an older nun at the chapel who not only greeted us warmly but couldn’t wait to tell us this joke.  A mother held out 2 suckers in her hands, one red…
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Astonished at His Teaching

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…
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