Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 5.19.24
Happy Birthday! Today we celebrate Pentecost, the birth of the church.
Pastor’s Letter 5.12.24
Dear Friends, Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms in our community! One of the blessings and curses of the Catholic priesthood is the charism of celibacy. It has created for me a place where I am able to be a part of so many people’s lives where I can intimately...
Pastor’s Letter 5.5.24
Dear Friends, My letter today does not focus on discipleship or spiritual concerns but on the harsh reality the parish is facing as it deals with decisions concerning the future of our old rectory. Read on if you have been wondering what is happening with the rectory...
Pastor’s Letter 4.28.24
Dear Friends, Last Sunday we had a very successful Spaghetti Dinner thanks to the help of so many of you who offered your time and energy to make it happen. What people are most impressed with is the wonderful welcome and hospitality they receive from all of you –...
Pastor’s Letter 4.21.24
Dear Friends, Many moons ago, when I was a child, our culture was shaped by a handful of television shows that almost everyone watched. As children, we would reenact the episodes in the backyard or in the basement. Certain ideas were strongly reinforced through the...
Pastor’s Letter 4.14.24
Dear Friends, Last week in my homily, I speculated that Thomas wanted to make sure that the Jesus who was appearing to the disciples in the resurrection was the same Jesus who had died on the cross, that Thomas needed to see the wounds, not Jesus’ face or voice, but...
Pastor’s Letter 4.7.24
Dear Friends, I was talking with a friend today and she said, “I find Easter a letdown. Lent is so full of the self-improvement activities of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. I add prayers to my usual prayer time, I give alms to special organizations, and I fast, not...
Pastor’s Letter 3.31.24
Happy Easter, My Friends! Pope Francis wrote a letter to young people a couple months ago and I thought part of his letter would be a good reflection for this Easter day: The same Christ who, by his cross, saved us from our sins, today continues to save and redeem us...
Pastor’s Letter 3.24.24
Dear Friends, During my recent trip to Guatemala (for meetings to plan the summer mission trip), we had an opportunity to be a part of Antigua’s Lenten procession. It involved hundreds of people dressed in purple, playing drums...
Pastor’s Letter 3.10.24
Dear Friends, I have felt the power of your prayers and the warmth of your love this past week as we began the work of recovery from the destruction of last Sunday’s break-in. As I have said so often this past week, I am happy to be among the living for a little while...
Pastor’s Letter 3.3.24
Dear Friends, As I mentioned at Mass, I had the opportunity in January to see a preview of the new movie about St. Frances Cabrini at a local theater. I, along with a hundred or so other folks from the Omaha area, got to experience a deeply...
Pastor’s Letter 2.25.24
Dear Friends, I am often grateful for the spiritual insights of Pope Francis. I remember one of the priests from Australia who was on sabbatical with me in Israel. He was bemoaning the fact that Sunday happened in Australia before it happened in Rome and so he could...