Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 5-29-16
Dear Friends, I heard a story recently from a mother who had raised several children. One Sunday morning at Mass she was enjoying herself sitting behind a young family at church. The young family had two children under the age of three and the two-year old was...
Pastor’s Letter 5-22-16
Dear friends, There were a couple of pieces of news this week that we should use and celebrate. The first one concerned the positive health benefits from attending Mass each week; the other concerned religious freedom. The first was a study published by JAMA last...
Pastor’s Letter 5-15-16
Dear Friends, Happy Birthday Church!!!! Each year at Pentecost we celebrate the birth of the Church. At Christmas it is the birth of Jesus, at Pentecost the Church’s birth. The descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples makes the Church possible. The story we hear...
Pastor’s Letter 5/8/16
Dear Friends, Before writing to all our mothers about their special day, I need to do a quick reminder to everyone. Of our 312 regular parish contributors we have received 115 updated data forms…so, before we start mailing out forms to everyone, (with the added cost...
Pastor’s Letter 5/1/16
Dear Friends, Jesus tells his disciples in the gospel today, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine...
Pastor’s Letter 4/24/16
Dear Friends, WOW. So many people! So many helpers! Time went so fast! We ran out of food! The wonderful article in the Omaha World-Herald by Erin Grace brought us lots of new faces and helped explain to the community our parish’s deep commitment to helping our school...
Pastor’s Letter 4/17/16
Dear Friends, I hope you can join us for the Spaghetti Dinner today. Lots of our parishioners have worked hard preparing for this wonderful event. I am deeply grateful to all who have helped and will be helping today. It takes many people to make these kinds of events...
Pastor’s Letter 4/10/16
Dear Friends, Next weekend is our spring Spaghetti Dinner! Please remind your friends, tell your relatives and bring your neighbors to this wonderful event with great food and fun. And, if you have not set aside a time to help, please consider doing that as well. It...
Pastor’s Letter 4/3/16
Dear Friends, What wonderful Holy Week and Easter celebrations we had!!! My deepest thanks to all of you who shared in preparing and carrying out those celebrations. The rituals were great celebrations of faith – expressing our deep love for Christ by walking with him...
Pastor’s Letter 3/27/16
Dear Friends, Happy Easter!!! In the Liturgy of Hours for Holy Saturday there is a wonderful reading taken from an ancient homily whose author is unknown. The homily describes the encounter between Jesus and Adam during Jesus’ descent into the realm of the...
Pastor’s Letter 3/20/16
Dear Friends, The church begins its greatest feast today. A feast that lasts a week. This week we remember and celebrate the Paschal Mystery. This week we recall all that Jesus did out of love for us and the work that redeems us. This week we remember the event from...
Pastor’s Letter 3/13/16
Dear Friends, You will obviously note that beginning today the statues in the church are covered or shrouded by purple cloths. This is an ancient tradition in the Catholic Church. It started in Germany in the ninth century with the extending of a large cloth before...