Category Archives: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

I read a story written by a priest who was sharing the experience he had while waiting in a grocery checkout line.  Behind him was a little girl about 6 years old who was pulling the gum and candy off the shelves and complaining loudly.  All the while her exasperated mother kept saying softly, “Be…

Ever hear the story of the one little nail?  It goes like this: “A proverbial nail made the following assessment of itself: ‘They won’t miss me. They don’t need me. Nobody likes me. After all, here is a big, beautiful building. It has stained glass windows, plush carpet, painted walls, a beautiful pulpit, and chandeliers.…

Scientists tell us that the human eye only observes a small portion, .0035%, or 35 ten-thousands of a per cent to be exact, of all the world’s electromagnetic spectrum, which, I learned, includes types of light like radio waves, microwaves, infrared radiation, ultraviolet rays, X-rays and gamma rays.  As we know from experience, our eyes…

One night King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, as we heard in great detail in our first reading.  This dream truly disturbed him, and he wanted to know what it meant.  Daniel, a young man taken hostage during this King’s reign, had a gift of interpreting dreams and offered, after prayer and reflection, to explain the…