Category Archives: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

Tuesday Reflection written by Sr. Rosemary Finnegan, O.P. Readings from: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091421.cfm Last Sunday, one of our young men in RCIA celebrated the Rite of Acceptance and is now officially a catechumen who will be baptized at the Easter Vigil.  As part of that Rite, he was signed by his sponsor with the sign of the…

When I read our Gospel today, which begins with Jesus spending the night in prayer with His Father, I was reminded of a true story. It seems a 15-year-old boy and his father were driving past a tiny airport in a small town in Ohio.  Suddenly a low flying small plane spun out of control…

Written by Sr. Rosemary Finnegan, O.P. Readings from: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/083121.cfm I would wager that waiting isn’t easy for any of us.  We want everything quickly…from our microwave meals to our ways of communicating.  And isn’t it fun to wait in traffic?  And how long do we have to wait until this COVID thing subsides? Because I often…

21st OT, St. Bartholomew, 2021 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082421.cfm Her name is Ms. Fonie Pierre.  We hardly know anything about her other than what the article in the newspaper told us. There was no picture, so we don’t even know what she looks like.  We were told she has a daughter, lives in the region of Haiti hit…