Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 11.12.23
Dear Friends, Two years ago, we launched our Cabrini Communities. While the idea of gathering as Christians in small groups to pray together, reflect on our lives, and share deeper friendship is not new, the creation of our Cabrini Communities was new for us. What was...
Pastor’s Letter 11.5.23
Dear Friends, The first part of the international Synod on Synodality ended recently and they published a brief letter summarizing the discussions that took place during the month of meeting together. They will meet again next year. The question that arises in my mind...
Pastor’s Letter 10.29.23
Dear Friends, This week Wednesday we have a Holy Day to celebrate, the feast of All Saints. While Thursday is not a Holy Day, the Commemoration of All Souls may be more deeply remembered as a time to pray for our loved ones who have died. Most people may not remember...
Pastor’s Letter 10.22.23
Dear Friends, First of all, my thanks to all of you who gave of yourselves to make our fall Spaghetti Dinner a great success. As I mingle with our guests throughout the day, they often comment about how they feel welcomed by your care for them, your friendly smile,...
Pastor’s Letter 10.15.23
Dear Friends, Last weekend, Charlie Petro from Ixim, Spirit of Solidarity, spoke at all the Masses at Cabrini about the importance of our ongoing commitment and involvement with this Mission of the Archdiocese. Wonderfully, I was connected with Ixim when it began...
Pastor’s Letter 10.8.23
Dear Friends, The Synod on Synodality has begun. To start the media feeding there was a public disclosure of a series of questions asked by some of the older cardinals, not attending the Synod, who had some doubts about its direction. Since they went public with...
Pastor’s Letter 10.1.23
Dear Friends, The Synod on Synodality begins this week in Rome. Compared to past synods there is a lot of information about this one in the media. It has generated some controversy even before it meets because Pope Francis asked all of us in the Church to be involved....
Pastor’s Letter 9.24.23
Dear Friends, One of the graces of my annual retreat this year was spending a good amount of time talking with Godabout where I am at in my life – not “at” as when it comes to Cabrini but “at’ as when it comes to myage. As I get near the optional retirement age for...
Pastor’s Letter 9.17.23
Dear Friends,I am joining about 50 of our fellow parishioners on the parish retreat with Fr. Andy Alexander at theCreighton Retreat Center this weekend. In a sense, it is completing the annual priest retreat I was doinglast week at the same location. I am delighted...
Pastor’s Letter 9.10.23
Dear Friends, Since I have been on retreat this past week, I am once again giving you a little bit of the writings of Pope Francis. This is a brief excerpt from a letter he wrote to the Church last year concerning the understanding of the liturgy by Catholics. I write...
Pastor’s Letter 9.3.23
Dear Friends, I am leaving this Sunday to go on my annual retreat which is only about six months late. Seems like life just got filled up with lots of things and there was never a full week that I could be away. But my spirit has been longing for a week of quiet, a...
Pastor’s Letter 8.27.23
Dear Friends, I feel bad when the talks Pope Francis has given get overlooked in today’s media and we are unable to read his remarks. So, let me give you one of the homilies from his recent gathering with hundreds of thousands of young people at World Youth Day. This...