Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 11.24.19
Dear Friends, It is a tad later this year, but our annual celebration of Thanksgiving is upon us. Thanksgiving joins together friends and family to eat, laugh, and reflect upon the innumerable blessings of God upon each of us. And, while for too many, Thanksgiving has...
Pastor’s Letter 11.17.19
Dear Friends, I love to read novels. Every time I open a new book, I hope to be captured by the story. I love to be lost in a good story where I cannot wait to get back to the book and discover more about the characters or the things happening around them. However, I...
Pastor’s Letter 11.10.19
Dear Friends, How much do you know about our patron saint, Frances Cabrini? Did you know that she is the first United States citizen to be canonized a saint? She became a U.S. citizen in 1909. Did you know that because of the terrible treatment of Italian immigrants,...
Pastor’s Letter 11.3.19
Dear Friends, We have entered the November season…snowflakes have fallen and trees are losing their leaves, we gain an hour of time and the holiday season is upon us. The days have gotten cold and we spend more time indoors. There must be a reason that the most...
Pastor’s Letter 10.27.19
Dear Friends, Thanks to everyone who helped make our Spaghetti Dinner last Sunday a great success!! I hope you had fun serving and eating and talking with new friends and helping All Saints School with their finances. I am always so proud of you as we offer this event...
Pastor’s Letter 10.20.19
Dear Friends, It is Spaghetti Dinner Sunday!!! Thanks to all of you who will be spending lots of time serving the meals today. I hope you find it enjoyable and a chance to work side by side with parishioners you did not know before. To those of you who are our guests,...
Pastor’s Letter 10.13.19
Dear Friends, The Catholic Church teaches us to work for justice for all people. The Church proclaims that human life is sacred and that the dignity of the human person is the foundation of a moral vision for society. Every human person is made in the image of God;...
Pastor’s Letter 10.6.19
Dear Friends, There was a wonderful essay in last week’s Wall Street Journal by Sarah Hurwitz who wrote about her experience of finally embracing her Jewish faith as an adult. It took her until she was 36 years old and functioning successfully in the world before she...
Pastor’s Letter 9.29.19
Dear Friends, At the theology conference I attended last week, I entered into a fascinating conversation with a couple of other attendees concerning what the scholar Charles Taylor calls a “false narrative of subtraction.” Taylor says that today’s Christians have a...
Pastor’s Letter 9.22.19
The theology conference I am attending this week is exploring Catholic imagination through different mediums. You may wonder why the imagination is important to religion at all, but, really, it is very important. A brilliant theologian, Fr. David Tracy, wrote a book in the early 80’s entitled The Analogical Imagination, where he explored the use of the imagination
Pastor’s Letter 9.15.19
Dear Friends, You should have received a copy of the Annual Report in the mail this week. If not, there are copies at the entryways to the church. Please take one. If you did not receive one by mail, then it is possible that the parish does not have an up-to-date...
Pastor’s Letter 9.8.19
Dear Friends, Last weekend, Pope Francis named thirteen people to be Cardinals in the church. They will serve as close advisors to Pope Francis and will be involved in the choosing of the new pope when Francis retires or dies. One of those chosen has a connection with...