Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 3.8.26
Dear Friends,During their Lenten retreat at the Vatican, Pope Leo and the team at the Vatican heard reflections from Bishop Eric Varden. Some of these reflections were specific to the ministry of a bishop or a priest, but many of them provide great insights for all of...
Pastor’s Letter 3.1.26
Pope Leo and the staff of the Vatican were on a Lenten Retreat this week given by Bishop Eric Varden who is a Trappist. This was the second meditation he gave on the retreat:St. Bernard keeps us on our toes. He states: ‘I would have you warned: no one lives on earth...
Pastor’s Letter 2.22.26
Dear Friends, Pope Leo has given us a challenge for our Lent – to listen. Here is what he wrote: Lent is a time in which the Church, guided by a sense of maternal care, invites us to place the mystery of God back in the center of our lives, in order to find renewal in...
Pastor’s Letter 2.15.26
Dear Friends, I was in a conversation with some friends last week about one of those odd Catholic disciplines, the Lenten Fish Fry. Odd because we are to have a special fast on the Fridays of Lent, and we do that by eating and drinking a lot! Even in conversation with...
Pastor’s Letter 2.8.26
Dear Friends, As I mentioned the past couple of weeks, our Cabrini and Magdalene Communities are about tolaunch a new season in March. If you are not in a community, this is a great time to join one orto form one. Those of you who are already in a community know the...
Pastor’s Letter 2.1.26
Dear Friends, These are difficult and unsettling times for all of us living in the United States. They are especially challenging times for our brothers and sisters who are recent immigrants. We are hearing more stories in the parish office of people placed in ICE...
Pastor’s Letter 1.25.26
Dear Friends, I have been on vacation for the past two weeks. At 70 plus years of age, it does not take much to say that I had an adventure. While snorkeling was the biggest planned adventure on this trip, life can always throw a few...
Pastor’s Letter 1.18.26
Dear Friends, We continue with Pope Leo’s homily from Epiphany, the close of the Jubilee Year: In the gospel reading, Herod fears for his throne and is agitated about those things that he feels are beyond his control. He tries to take advantage of the wishes of the...
Pastor’s Letter 1.11.26
Dear Friends, I am on my annual escape from January cold…hiding out for a couple weeks in San Pedro, Belize. You are in my prayers each and every day while I am away. This weekend and next, I will give you what Pope Leo said in a homily to mark the end of the Jubilee...
Pastor’s Letter 1.4.26
Dear Friends, We have entered a new year. Have you made any resolutions to begin the year? Have you already broken them? I know that I am not very good at keeping resolutions. I think resolutions are good things if you keep them in balance. Goals, perhaps, are a lot...
Pastor’s Letter 12.28.25
Dear Friends, I hope your Christmas season has begun with joy and blessings. As a church, our Christmas celebrations will continue through the celebrations of Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord on January 11th. Unlike our culture, which has been celebrating...
Pastor’s Letter 12.21.25
Dear Friends, We are in our final week of Advent; this year, we get almost a full fourth week. We have been walking our Advent journey with Mary. This week, we pause to look at one more piece of Mary’s spirituality – that she did not experience life and God alone....