Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 4.11.21
Dear Friends, On this Divine Mercy Sunday, I would like to share with you some reflections from Pope Francis for this day: Last Sunday we celebrated the Lord’s resurrection; today we witness the resurrection of his disciple. It has already been a week, a week since...
Pastor’s Letter 4.4.21
Happy Easter! I trust your Lent was deeply spiritual. Perhaps you were able to join us in the Exodus Bible Study or the Marriage Course or the most recent Alpha series or maybe you did some spiritual reading or engaged in more prayer or maybe you took on some works of...
Pastor’s Letter 3.28.21
Dear Friends, The most sacred week of the year is here. I hope your Lent was holy and that your relationship with the Lord has deepened. I hope, too, that it has prepared you for walking with Jesus during the Triduum when we remember the gift of the Eucharist, the...
Pastor’s Letter 3.21.21
Dear Friends, If you walked into the church this weekend, then you noticed that the statues and images are covered – at least the ones we can reach! You may be wondering why the parish does this the last couple weeks of Lent. We might first ask why we have statues and...
Pastor’s Letter 3.14.21
Dear Friends, Pope Francis’ extraordinary visit to war-weary Iraq moved me to tears a number of times. He went to bring comfort and support to the remaining Christians who had suffered so terribly under the ISIS regime. He clearly was acting as a good shepherd who...
Pastor’s Letter 3.7.21
Dear Friends, Last week while searching for something to watch, I ran across a documentary on Amazon Prime about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I’ve read a number of books about Bonhoeffer, but I’ve never seen the documentary. It was well done. You may know that Bonhoeffer was...
Pastor’s Letter 2.28.21
Dear Friends, I blame my faulty memory on many things – age, brain cells nearing capacity, too much new input coming in too quickly - perhaps you have some creative excuses that I could use. Memory is not logical or rational. Most of what is in our memory...
Pastor’s Letter 2.21.21
Dear Friends, The First Sunday of Lent each year has us with Jesus in the desert being tempted by Satan. The version we hear this year from Mark is quite short and does not go into the details of Satan’s clever three-part temptations and how Jesus responded to each....
Pastor’s Letter 2.14.21
Dear Friends, Our Lenten journey begins Wednesday. The Cabrini Liturgy Committee decided to build our Lenten theme from the Gospel of the First Sunday: similar to Jesus, we are led by the Spirit into a Lenten desert of challenge and emptiness where we are invited to...
Pastor’s Letter 2.7.21
Dear Friends, The vaccine for Covid is slowly being rolled out to people. Hopefully by summer, most people who are at risk will have received the vaccine. If that proves to be the case, then we will be able to return to celebration of the Sunday liturgy in person. At...
Pastor’s Letter 1.31.21
Dear Friends, This past fall, Pope Francis issued an encyclical on human relationships, our responsibilities for one another and for our world. In that encyclical he made official a church teaching that was strongly promoted by Pope John Paul II and Pope...
Pastor’s Letter 1.24.21
Dear Friends, Let me continue our discussion from last week on the Sacrament of the Sick. We will now be offering theSacrament at the 11:00 Mass on the last Sunday of every month. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is one of the ways Jesus assists us in life...