Category Archives: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

‘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…

‘Return’, that one word, ‘Return’ was highlighted on the cover of our parish bulletin and eblast last week.  No, it wasn’t there because someone lost something valuable and wanted it back, and it wasn’t there because Fr. Walsh had just returned from Ireland.  It was there in bold, broad letters because RETURN is the theme…

Photo: “82 Stevenson Savart 0211” via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ For the past week or more, we’ve been watching true grit and perseverance at work during the Winter Olympics. There was Lindsey Vonn who at age 41, returned to competitive skiing, overcoming a torn ACL to compete in the downhill event. …

I don’t know about other cities, but if you’re from Chicago, like I am, and other Chicagoans ask you where you lived in that city, you automatically answered with the name of your family parish.  St. Rita’s was always my answer.  They would respond naming their parish, and we’d think nothing of it!  The parish…