Category: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

Who wants to go to Heaven?

You may have heard the story of the young boy who went to church on Sunday and the priest asked, “How many of you want to go to heaven?”  Everybody but a young boy put up his hand.  The priest looked at him and asked, “Son, don’t you want to go to heaven?”  “Sure”, the…
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Unexpected Contradictions

When I try to imagine Zaccheus in my mind, somehow, I picture the actor Danny Devito!  I can just see Danny being a bit obnoxious and pushing his way through a crowd of tall people, jumping up occasionally, trying to see over them.  Then, finally, as undignified as it was, he climbs a tree in…
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Just doing my job

Today’s gospel could be difficult to understand.  It seems as if the master is being a bit demanding of his servant, and surely ungrateful, for his servant’s work.  After a full day’s work in the field, the servant comes in not to eat or relax, but to perform yet another task of serving the master’s…
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Do I have a heart?

Two weeks ago, on Oct. 24, Pope Francis wrote a beautiful letter to the universal Church called “He Loved Us”, or “Dilexit Nos” in Latin, but I think he really had our parish in mind when he penned it.  This is because the theme of his writing is the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and he…
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