Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 1.25.26
Dear Friends, I have been on vacation for the past two weeks. At 70 plus years of age, it does not take much to say that I had an adventure. While snorkeling was the biggest planned adventure on this trip, life can always throw a few...
Pastor’s Letter 1.18.26
Dear Friends, We continue with Pope Leo’s homily from Epiphany, the close of the Jubilee Year: In the gospel reading, Herod fears for his throne and is agitated about those things that he feels are beyond his control. He tries to take advantage of the wishes of the...
Pastor’s Letter 1.11.26
Dear Friends, I am on my annual escape from January cold…hiding out for a couple weeks in San Pedro, Belize. You are in my prayers each and every day while I am away. This weekend and next, I will give you what Pope Leo said in a homily to mark the end of the Jubilee...
Pastor’s Letter 1.4.26
Dear Friends, We have entered a new year. Have you made any resolutions to begin the year? Have you already broken them? I know that I am not very good at keeping resolutions. I think resolutions are good things if you keep them in balance. Goals, perhaps, are a lot...
Pastor’s Letter 12.28.25
Dear Friends, I hope your Christmas season has begun with joy and blessings. As a church, our Christmas celebrations will continue through the celebrations of Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord on January 11th. Unlike our culture, which has been celebrating...
Pastor’s Letter 12.21.25
Dear Friends, We are in our final week of Advent; this year, we get almost a full fourth week. We have been walking our Advent journey with Mary. This week, we pause to look at one more piece of Mary’s spirituality – that she did not experience life and God alone....
Pastor’s Letter 12.14.25
Dear Friends, You might have seen a news clip where Pope Leo was asked about his favorite spiritual book, and he replied it was the Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. I am sure that answer has surprised a lot of people. It is a small book and...
Pastor’s Letter 12.7.25
Dear Friends, Last week, we reflected briefly on Mary’s prayerful stance of focusing on and listening to God. Her contemplative posture before God made her ready to encounter the angel and say yes to God to be the mother of the Savior. Obviously, another approach to...
Pastor’s Letter 11.30.25
Pastor’s Letter 11.30.25
Dear Friends, Welcome to Advent. In our discussions at the Liturgy Committee planning session for Advent, we were led to the idea that our theme this year would focus on following Mary’s example of preparing for Jesus’ birth. We are in the final weeks of the Jubilee...
Pastor’s Letter 11.23.25
Dear Friends, As you read about in the news, the Catholic Bishops of the United States issued a letter to us last week. With our national celebration of Thanksgiving happening this week which recognizes the reality that most of us are children of immigrants, I think...
Pastor’s Letter 11.15.25
Dear Friends, The last two Sundays have given us a sample of the Church’s liturgical year that often go unnoticed by most because they fell, accidentally, on a Sunday. The first one, All Souls, invited us to remember our loved ones who have died and to hold them close...