Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 2/21/16
Dear Friends, Last Sunday evening, Channel 7 (KETV) did a story about the original Cathedral bells that hang in our bell tower and our desire to restore them to get them ringing again. If you saw it, I hope you enjoyed the attention the story brought to the parish. We...
Pastor’s Letter 2/14/16
Dear Friends, We were honored this past week to have a powerful presentation by Deacon James Keating to kick-off our Lenten Thursday series. He reminded us to see each person as precious rather than the way our culture tends to look at people – as useful. He also...
Pastor’s Letter 2/7/16
Dear Friends, Easter is early this year. Which means…Lent is upon us! This Wednesday, we begin our Lenten Season with Ash Wednesday Masses. Then, we start our Lenten reflection series on Mercy with a talk by Dr. James Keating on Thursday evening at 7:00 pm in the...
Pastor’s Letter 1/31/16
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time “Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous.” (1 Corinthians 13:4) Do you get jealous? Do you focus more on the things that other people have than on the gifts that God has given you? Are you pompous? Do you acquire...
Pastor’s Letter 1/24/16
Dear Friends, As we continue to celebrate this Holy Year of Mercy, I thought you might want to better understand the meaning of a “Holy Year.” This is from the Vatican website: WHAT IS A HOLY YEAR? “In the Roman Catholic tradition, a Holy Year, or Jubilee is a great...
Pastor’s Letter 1/17/16
Dear Friends, I recently gave a talk to the employees of the Archdiocese of Omaha about the Jubilee Year of Mercy and what the word love means as it used in sacred scripture. A great resource for that presentation was the first encyclical letter of Pope Benedict, Deus...
Pastor’s Letter 1/10/16
Dear Friends, You may have noticed a few weeks ago a news report from Pew Research Center that said the share of adults living in middle income households fell to just under 50 percent last year from 61 percent in 1970. Upper income families rose to 21 percent of the...
Pastor’s Letter 1/3/16
Dear Friends, My deepest thanks for the many thoughtful gifts and cards and “goodies” you sent to me for Christmas. Now, I must start the dieting in anticipation of Lent! I will be taking a short winter vacation in mid-January with Fr. Boes. We have done an annual...
Pastor’s Letter 12/27/15
Dear Friends, It was just a day ago that we were celebrating the birth of Jesus and now as the church celebrates the feast of the Holy Family we are given the story of Jesus at age 12 staying behind at the Temple to learn from and teach the scholars of scripture. The...
Pastor’s Letter 12/20/15
Dear Friends, Christmas is upon us! Though, this year, we do have almost a full Fourth Week of Advent. Sometimes, when Christmas lands on a Monday or Tuesday, the Fourth Week of Advent is very short. So this year we get a few more days to prepare for our celebration...
Pastor’s Letter 12/6/15
Dear Friends, I think that this second week of Advent belongs to Mary. We have two major days to celebrate her this week: December 8th – the Holy Day of the Immaculate Conception and on December 12 – the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. We have listed the holy day Mass...