Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
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...
Pastor’s Letter 1.17.21
Dear Friends, We will be starting a new tradition at St. Frances Cabrini. On the last Sunday of the month at the 11:00 Mass, following the homily, we will offer the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick to all who are ill and wish to be anointed. This will be done...
Pastor’s Letter 1.10.21
Dear Friends, Much has already been said about the awful events of January 6th. I do not need to repeat those here. I could provide a litany of condemnation and prayers for our country from Catholic Bishops and other leaders, but you can probably find those quotes...
Pastor’s Letter 1.3.21
Dear Friends, On a January day in 2007, the famed violin virtuoso, Joshua Bell, played for 45 minutes at the entrance to the L’Enfant Plaza Station of the subway line in Washington, D.C. He was part of an experiment put together by Washington Post writer Gene...
Pastor’s Letter 12.27.20
Dear Friends, The Christmas season lasts until January 9th when we celebrate the baptism of Jesus. It’s a bit longer than the “12 days” which would take us to Epiphany on January 6th. I encourage you to continue the season, leave up your decorations and reflect on...