Pastor’s Letter 9.17.23

Pastor’s Letter 9.17.23

Dear Friends,I am joining about 50 of our fellow parishioners on the parish retreat with Fr. Andy Alexander at theCreighton Retreat Center this weekend. In a sense, it is completing the annual priest retreat I was doinglast week at the same location. I am delighted...
Pastor’s Letter 9.10.23

Pastor’s Letter 9.10.23

Dear Friends, Since I have been on retreat this past week, I am once again giving you a little bit of the writings of Pope Francis. This is a brief excerpt from a letter he wrote to the Church last year concerning the understanding of the liturgy by Catholics. I write...
Pastor’s Letter 9.3.23

Pastor’s Letter 9.3.23

Dear Friends, I am leaving this Sunday to go on my annual retreat which is only about six months late. Seems like life just got filled up with lots of things and there was never a full week that I could be away. But my spirit has been longing for a week of quiet, a...
Pastor’s Letter 8.27.23

Pastor’s Letter 8.27.23

Dear Friends, I feel bad when the talks Pope Francis has given get overlooked in today’s media and we are unable to read his remarks. So, let me give you one of the homilies from his recent gathering with hundreds of thousands of young people at World Youth Day. This...
Pastor’s Letter 8.20.23

Pastor’s Letter 8.20.23

Dear Friends, As students return to school, I thought I would give you a few thoughts from Stanley Hauerwas who taught at Duke for many years. These comments come from a letter he wrote to entering college freshmen and was published in First Things: …Undergraduate...
Pastor’s Letter 8.13.23

Pastor’s Letter 8.13.23

Dear Friends, Saturday, I will be joining a number of my high school classmates in Columbus, Nebraska, to celebrate our 50th reunion. It was a Sunday afternoon in May, 1973, that 61 of us graduated from Scotus High School and began the next stage of our growth toward...