Category Archives: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

We all know how kind words can really lift someone up.  Listening to a favorite song can really lift up our spirits.  My heart was lifted up the other day when my niece called from her home in Greece just to talk. In our gospel today, however, ‘being lifted up’ meant something entirely different for…

It seems only appropriate to start with an Irish blessing: “May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more, And nothing but happiness come through your door.” This blessing can certainly apply to the crippled man in our gospel today.  He had troubles galore, but when Christ appeared before him, “nothing but happiness came…

If the words from our first reading from the Book of Daniel sounded familiar to you, you were correct.  In fact, they are part of the prayer we hear during the Offertory of the Mass that expresses our desire for a ‘contrite heart and humble spirit’.  This whole prayer is one of the most beautiful…

‘Walk the talk’.  That may be the simplest way of expressing Jesus’ message to us today.  Our late beloved Pope Francis, in his encyclical “Fratelli Tutti”, says it this way: “Now there are only two kinds of people:  those who care for someone who is hurting and those who pass by; those who bend down…