Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 9.12.21
Dear Friends, First of all, thank you so very much for the cards and well wishes given for my 40th anniversary celebration. I am deeply touched by this outpouring of love. My hope is to respond with thank you’s over the next two months. Look for something in the...
Pastor’s Letter 9.4.21
Dear Friends, This weekend we are having an open house to celebrate the 40th anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood. The anniversary was June 6th, but I thought Covid might have waned if we waited until September – boy, was I wrong on that one! Join us if you...
Pastor’s Letter 8.29.21
Dear Friends, I read a delightful book this past week. It is by Oliver Burkeman and it bears the title, Four Thousand Weeks. It is a book about time management, but rather than looking outward to productivity strategies, Four Thousand Weeks encourages an inner shift...
Pastor’s Letter 8.22.21
Dear Friends, As the new school year begins and cooler evenings are upon us, I am having flashbacks to the daily opening of my philosophy and theology classes in college. I attended the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. The philosophy and theology classes...
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...