Pastor’s Letter 9.28.25

Pastor’s Letter 9.28.25

Dear Friends, I am on a Jubilee Year pilgrimage to Greece and Rome. We will return October 7th.  So, you get Pope Leo for the reflection this week: At the heart of the account of the Passion, in the most luminous and at the same time darkest moment of Jesus’...
Pastor’s Letter 9.21.25

Pastor’s Letter 9.21.25

Dear Friends, As part of the Jubilee experience at Cabrini, I and 45 of your fellow parishioners are going to become “real” pilgrims, going on a traditional pilgrimage, following the path St. Paul took 2,000 years ago. When the Holy Year was announced by Pope Francis,...
Pastor’s Letter 9.14.25

Pastor’s Letter 9.14.25

Dear Friends, Once again, there is violence in our country. In a high school and on a university campus,people were shot and killed. Once again, people stand on different sides of political spectrumsand shout slogans at each other. Once again, dialogue is missing,...
Pastor’s Letter 9.7.25

Pastor’s Letter 9.7.25

Dear Friends, During this Jubilee year we have been reflecting on hope. Of the three theological virtues, it is probably the hardest to understand. Too many of us confuse hope with optimism. Last week, Pope Leo, in his Wednesday audience, said that hope is a decision....
Pastor’s Letter 8.31.25

Pastor’s Letter 8.31.25

Dear Friends, As I started writing the bulletin letter this week, the news was full of the tragic shooting at a Catholic Parish in Minneapolis. While the grade school students were at their opening school Mass, a shooter stood outside and fired at them through the...
Pastor’s Letter 8.24.25

Pastor’s Letter 8.24.25

Dear Friends, Pope Leo gives an audience each Wednesday and that happens to be the same day I normally write the bulletin letter. I read his reflection as a way of getting ideas to write about in my letter. The problem is that Pope Leo’s reflections at the audience...