Pastor’s Letter 2.10.19

Pastor’s Letter 2.10.19

Dear Friends, My students in the lower grades at All Saints reminded me that Valentine’s Day was coming up this week and invited me to come to their parties. I warned them that I probably would not have a Valentine card or candy for each of them. They would just have...
Pastor’s Letter 2.3.19

Pastor’s Letter 2.3.19

Dear Friends, Years ago, I read a book by Parker Palmer entitled, The Promise of Paradox. The book offered spiritual reflections on ministry and the challenges of living as a disciple of Jesus. Mr. Palmer had gotten the ideas for the book from Fr. Thomas Merton, a...
Pastor’s Letter 1.27.19

Pastor’s Letter 1.27.19

Dear Friends, Social media and network news all covered an event in Washington this past week where a group of Catholic High School students were in a confrontation with two different groups protesting at the Lincoln Memorial as they waited for their bus to pick them...
Pastor’s Letter

Pastor’s Letter

Dear Friends, It is commonplace today in television shows, movies, books and music to find religion absolutely absent as if it did not exist and people never go to church. I am not sure when this began to happen, but it is always a surprise when we do run into some...
Pastor’s Letter 1.13.19

Pastor’s Letter 1.13.19

Dear Friends, I am just finishing a vacation in Belize and will be returning to Omaha tomorrow. Since I am not in my “composing a letter mode,” I am offering you a reflection out of Ireland (from Youth 2000) about today’s feast of the Baptism of Jesus: “Almost four...
Pastor’s Letter 1.6.19

Pastor’s Letter 1.6.19

Dear Friends, Pope Francis gave a beautiful homily at the Christmas Mass in Rome. Here is a bit of the homily: Bethlehem: the name means house of bread. In this “house”, the Lord today wants to encounter all humankind. He knows that we need food to live. Yet he also...