Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
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...
Pastor’s Letter 11.9.25
Dear Friends, Pope Leo takes Tuesday off from his busy schedule, but even on his day off, he fields questions from journalists and tourists who have gone out to Castel Gandolfo in hopes of a closer encounter with the Pope than is possible at the Vatican. This past...
Pastor’s Letter 11.2.25
Dear Friends, I have just returned from my annual retreat – a week of prayer, silence, time alone with God. A week always seems too short when it comes to a retreat. Just as I am getting into the rhythms of prayer, the week is over. I suppose it is a good thing that I...
Pastor’s Letter 10.26.25
Dear Friends, We conclude our fall stewardship reflections this Sunday by pausing to look at how we are doing in thanking God for the gifts God has given us. In the history of the Church, this has focused on almsgiving and returning a “tithe” to the work of God in the...