Msgr. Pope of the Implications of the Word 'Consider'

"Every now and then a word suddenly catches your ear, and suddenly you notice it several times in one day. You're tempted to say, 'There it is again!' 

"Recently, such was the case with the word 'consider.' It's just an ordinary, every-day word. Or is it? Why did it suddenly strike me so? 

"With my knowledge of Latin, it occurred to me that the word 'consider' might have something to do with the stars, because the Latin word sidera means 'stars' or 'heavenly bodies.' How interesting! I've used the word for years and yet that thought had never crossed my mind before. . . ."
In a recent commentary, Monsignor Charles Pope (pastor of Holy Comforter-Saint Cyprian Parish, Washington, DC) reflected on our consideration of something as thinking of it "in a way that sees the present moment as caught up in something far more than the here and now; [experiencing] this moment, this place and time, as part of something far greater than we can imagine."
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