Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 8.15.21
Dear Friends, A new school year has begun. Teachers have been meeting and preparing their classrooms. Families have been shopping for school supplies and taking last minute trips. While the weather remains warm, the school year is underway. At the beginning of a new...
Pastor’s Letter 8.8.21
Dear Friends, I enjoy watching sporting events but do not often spend much time doing it. This past week, thanks to steadyrains in the Colorado mountains, I had the opportunity to watch the daily highlights of the Olympics. It wasodd to watch them without the normal...
Pastor’s Letter 8.1.21
Dear Friends, I wrote last week about the importance of having ceremony and celebration in our lives to help us be our fullest selves and in creating a healthy human culture. Catholics are famous for our rituals and our parties which make life much richer. This is one...
Pastor’s Letter 7.25.21
Dear Friends, We are planning to have a parish celebration to “ritualize” the ending of the separation caused by the pandemic. It is a very Catholic thing to do. I am aware that the pandemic is not over and there are still possibilities of variants popping up to haunt...
Pastor’s Letter 7.18.21
Dear Friends, Starting last Sunday, the second reading at Sunday Mass comes from St. Paul’s wonderful letter to the people of Ephesus. We will be listening to it for the remainder of the summer. Perhaps that does not strike you as anything special, but those...
Pastor’s Letter 7.11.21
Dear Friends, I just finished reading a book by Alan Lightman who teaches at MIT. It is entitled, Probable Impossibilities, Musings on Beginnings and Endings. He is not a believer in God, but the book presents scientific and philosophical questions about what we know...
Pastor’s Letter 7.4.21
Dear Friends, Thanks for your comments about last week’s letter on the Eucharist and the United States Bishop’s effort to teach about the importance of the Eucharist. Clearly, in receiving this food from Jesus after the Easter experience, we receive the gift of his...
Pastor’s Letter 6.27.21
Dear Friends, Last week, the Catholic Bishops of the United States generated quite a bit of press as they discussed something that would ordinarily seem to be quite mundane in the eyes of the world; they discussed whether or not to write a document about the...
Pastor’s Letter 6.20.21
Dear Friends, I love watching young children interacting with their parents. It is often filled with loving, tender moments. Sadly, we do not remember those first few years of life. Like everyone else, my memories are vague and fragmentary, faded snapshots that...
Pastor’s Letter 6.13.21
Dear Friends, After a long and chilly springtime, summer is suddenly upon us! I have heard from many of you that summer vacation travels are beginning. Long trips are now planned after the absence of summer vacations last year due to the Covid pandemic. I pray that...
Pastor’s Letter 6.6.21
Dear Friends, One of the tasks I ask those who come to me for spiritual direction to undertake is the keeping of a spiritual journal. The journal is a tool for self-reflection that allows the directee to cooperate with the Holy Spirit to make sense of the...
Pastor’s Letter 5.30.21
Dear Friends, At 10:00 am on June 6, 1981, I and four of my classmates walked into St. Cecilia’s Cathedral to be ordainedpriests for the Archdiocese of Omaha; forty years ago. Not sure where all those years went, but they went.One of my classmates, Fr. Owen Korte,...