Pastor’s Letter 3.4.18

Pastor’s Letter 3.4.18

Dear Friends, Next weekend, St. Frances Cabrini Parish is having a Lenten Parish Mission!! Years ago, this type of event would have brought in Redemptorist, Dominican, or Jesuit preachers to speak each night at the parish for a week with the goal of challenging people...
Pastor’s Letter 2.25.18

Pastor’s Letter 2.25.18

Dear Friends, One of my addictions is reading. I cannot read one book at a time. I am always reading four or more at the same time. I blame this on college where we always took at least four courses at once and all of them had reading to be done. I just got into a...
Pastor’s Letter 2.18.18

Pastor’s Letter 2.18.18

Dear Friends, On Ash Wednesday morning at Mass, Pope Francis gave a challenging homily to his listeners. He recommended three words for the Lenten journey to help us return to God: “Pause a little, leave behind the unrest and commotion that fill the soul with bitter...
Pastor’s Letter 2.11.18

Pastor’s Letter 2.11.18

Dear Friends, Lent is a holy season in the church calendar, but I wonder if it isn’t awfully easy to miss the point of it. Pope Francis recently wrote a letter to the church about the season. In it, he reminds us to practice the basic Lenten disciplines of...
Pastor’s Letter 2.4.18

Pastor’s Letter 2.4.18

Dear Friends, The Christmas season ended on January 7, though in some churches the remnants of Christmas remain. The three CUES schools gathered at Holy Name Church on Wednesday of last week to celebrate Mass for Catholic Schools Week together and, in their church,...
Pastor’s Letter 1.28.18

Pastor’s Letter 1.28.18

Dear Friends, This week we celebrate the gift of Catholic Schools to our church and to our community. I am a product of a Catholic School upbringing. When I was student, I did not really know what a gift I was receiving by having that kind of education. I did not know...