Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
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...
Pastor’s Letter 3/6/16
Dear Friends, For the last seven weeks Pope Francis’ book, The Name of God is Mercy, has been on the New York Times Best Seller List. In the introduction to the book, Andrea Tornelli recounts a homily by Pope Francis on the woman caught in adultery: “Their only...
Pastor’s Letter 2/28/16
Dear Friends, Our Lenten journey is half over. How are you doing? Have you kept your commitment or your fast or your extra prayer or your good deeds? If not, now is the time to ask God to help you work toward whatever Lenten Penance you have chosen to do. Like the fig...
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...