Category Archives: Sr. Rosemary’s Reflections

You may recall the daring rescue that occurred just over a month ago when an experienced cave diver, Mark Dickey, became trapped in a Turkish cave.  He was more than 3,000 feet below the entrance of the cave when he began to experience internal bleeding.  His rescue over the next week became an international operation…

To borrow a title from Charles Dickens, our Gospel passage today could easily be referred to as “A Tale of Two Cities”.  One city was Samaria, the other Jerusalem. Both were cities in Israel, but there was deep religious hatred between them because the Jews in Samaria had intermarried with those non-Jews who had conquered…

Tuesday Reflection from Sr. RoseMary Finnegan, O.P. Readings from: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092623.cfm I enjoy seeing those ‘Ancestry.com’ commercials where someone has discovered their extended family tree and genealogy.  They’re surprised and excited to learn their lineage. My favorite is the young woman who found out that a very, very distance cousin of hers was George Washington.  She’s…

Tuesday Reflection from Sr. Rosemary Finnegan, O.P. Readings from: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/tuesday-twenty-fourth-week-ordinary-time How could we not smile a bit as we listened to the first reading about the qualifications of bishops and deacons?  I particularly enjoyed the part that said a bishop “should not be a recent convert, so that he may not become conceited”.  I don’t…