Category Archives: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

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…

Two different men; two different lives; two different faith journeys; both, however, had one desire…that’s what our readings are about today. First, we meet Eleazar, a good and holy man whose name means “God will help”.  He is an elderly man who has aged with grace and dignity. Now he’s being forced by the oppressive…