Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
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...
Pastor’s Letter 8.20.23
Dear Friends, As students return to school, I thought I would give you a few thoughts from Stanley Hauerwas who taught at Duke for many years. These comments come from a letter he wrote to entering college freshmen and was published in First Things: …Undergraduate...
Pastor’s Letter 8.13.23
Dear Friends, Saturday, I will be joining a number of my high school classmates in Columbus, Nebraska, to celebrate our 50th reunion. It was a Sunday afternoon in May, 1973, that 61 of us graduated from Scotus High School and began the next stage of our growth toward...
Pastor’s Letter 8.6.23
Dear Friends, This weekend our parish joins with the Santa Lucia Festival Committee in celebrating a 99-year tradition in the Sicilian community in Omaha. The Festival is once again on our doorstep which makes it so much easier to participate in the fun and the music....
Pastor’s Letter 7.30.23
Dear Friends, One of the books that has been on my “reading pile” of books this past year was one written by the German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer entitled Life Together. It was recommended by a friend of mine who said that the book taught him more about the...