Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Letter from Archbishop Lucas
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Pastor’s Letter 11.11.18
Dear Friends, Church law requires every priest to make a weeklong annual retreat. I will be leaving for my retreat tomorrow and will return the following Monday. Please keep me in your prayers this week. I will keep you in mine. I have always enjoyed retreats and this...
Pastor’s Letter 11.4.18
Dear Friends, With the election on Tuesday, I would encourage you this weekend to reread the statement by the United States Bishops on Faithful Citizenship. You can find it on line at http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/faithful-citizenship. It is impossible to put...
Pastor’s Letter 10.28.18
Dear Friends, Thanks for all your help in completing another very successful Spaghetti Dinner. It was a smashing success thanks to the work and cooperation of so many people. It takes an army to provide almost 5,000 dinners! People always comment that the event is run...
Pastor’s Letter 10.21.18
Dear Friends, Welcome to the Spaghetti Dinner weekend! The fall Dinner always happens in the midst of falling leaves and football. I hope you can come over and join us for some great food and friendship. The team always needs your help to serve others, so if you have...
Pastor’s Letter 10.14.18
Dear Friends, A couple of weeks ago we had two young women from the John Paul II Newman Center at Masses to talk about the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal. They both read a beautiful quote at the beginning of their talk from an Italian American female saint which spoke of...
Pastor’s Letter 10.7.18
Dear Friends, You may not have heard the news. A recent study from the University of Maryland has shown that members of the generation born in and after the mid 1980s are divorcing at a lower rate than prior generations! Philip Cohen, a sociology professor at the...
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...