Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 5.2.21
Dear Friends, You probably know people who met online, got to know each other, fell in love and got married. It is not uncommon anymore that people meet through online services and get married. I have had a few of those weddings and those couples are very happy...
Pastor’s Letter 4.25.21
Dear Friends, While I am preparing food in my kitchen, I like to listen to The Moth podcast. Are you familiar with The Moth Radio Hour on PBS? They are real stories told by real people. They are simply stories from their lives. Often times, the stories will move me to...
Pastor’s Letter 4.18.21
Dear Friends, I was not surprised this past week by Governor Ricketts declining a federal request to house children in Nebraska who are refugees at the US border. Not surprised but disappointed and saddened. He said, “Nebraska is declining their request because...
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...