Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 9.30.18
Dear Friends, Our world seems to be deepening the divisions between people on a daily basis. There are divisions between countries, divisions between political parties and within parties, divisions between neighbors, divisions within families and divisions within...
Pastor’s Letter 9.23.18
Dear Friends, For the past month, we have had parishioners talking at each of the Sunday Masses about their experience of living discipleship through involvement in different ministries. Today, I will be offering you our Annual Report. You can pick up copies at the...
Pastor’s Letter 9.16.18
Dear Friends, One of the great outcomes of the Second Vatican Council was the realization that the laity were a holy and essential part of the Church. There were two or three layers prior to the Council and after the Council there was only the one layer of Church. We...
Pastor’s Letter 9.9.18
Dear Friends, Some have been asking questions about the holiness of the church given the recent revelations about Cardinal McCarrick and the investigations into past abusive activity of clergy. I’d like to share with you some thoughts from a book published fifty years...
Pastor’s Letter 9.2.18
Dear Friends, With all the chatter on social media this week concerning the ongoing revelations about the cover-ups in the church with regard to criminal conduct by clergy, it was impossible for me not to think and pray about it. Therefore, I reflected on sin and evil...
Pastor’s Letter 8.26.18
Dear Friends, This weekend you will hear a letter from Archbishop Lucas read at all the Masses. In it, he expresses his thoughts about the most recent revelations concerning Church leadership and the sexual abuse crisis. You may have heard that Pope Francis also wrote...
Pastor’s Letter 8.19.19
Dear Friends, I am reading Joshua Gibbs new book about teaching the virtues to young people. In it, he reflects on his own personal struggles and those of his students to live the good life. I appreciated one of his discussions where he reflects on the common pattern...
Pastor’s Letter 8.12.18
Dear Friends, In the social media spectrum, there has been a lot of discussion this past week about Pope Francis and what he said about Catholic teaching on the death penalty. Many have made the mistake of saying that Pope Francis has changed 2,000 years of Catholic...
Pastor’s Letter
Dear Friends, This past week, Pope Francis clarified Catholic teaching on the death penalty. During the past fifty years, there has been an ongoing movement, within the teachings of the Church, to limit the use of the death penalty by governments around the world....
Pastor’s Letter 7.29.18
Dear Friends, With old buildings come past glory and, sometimes, present pain. At Cabrini, we have a beautiful old church to gather in each week. Many of the items in the church predate our present building built in 1908. The back altar, the statues, the oil painting...
Pastor’s Letter 7.22.18
Dear Friends, Whenever I watch British television, the different ways they use the English language strikes me. One of those is the use of the word “holiday” when talking about taking time away. They are off on a “holiday.” The origin of the word “holiday” comes from...
Pastor’s Letter 7.15.18
Dear Friends, The Church in its totality, in all of its members, has a missionary task. Love of God and love of neighbor are one in the eyes of Jesus. The commission he gives to the disciples in today’s gospel is for all of us. No member of the body of Christ is alive...