Category Archives: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

The question that the most recent CARA survey at Georgetown, taken in 2023, asked Catholics about what they believe happens during the consecration of the bread and wine during Mass was this: “Do you personally believe that after the Consecration during a Catholic Mass, that Jesus Christ is truly present under the appearance of bread…

Yesterday and today, we have been drawn into a conversation Jesus is having with Nicodemus who is really struggling to understand the meaning of Jesus’ words.  Can he believe in Jesus or not? There was a lot at stake for Nicodemus to even be talking to Jesus.  Most of the disciples were ordinary people with…

For the past 6 weeks we’ve been living Lent.  But also for the past 6 weeks, we’ve been walking past square white barriers up and down Park Avenue, including a couple outside our church, that signal sidewalk and light pole improvements that are being renovated by the city. It is the wording on those barrier…

At his very last meal with his friends the Apostles, Jesus made a bold statement: ‘One of you will betray me.”  Baffled as the apostles were as to who this could be, they didn’t seem to think it was Judas.  Even after they saw Judas eat the morsel of bread following Jesus’ words about the…