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by Father Nathan Reesman

Dominic is a seminarian who has been assigned to our parishes for the next four years.

While we are not hosting Family Promise in person at this time, you can still help!

Did you know that one of our parishioners is going out in the mission fields? She is bringing Jesus to our college-aged friends!! Be sure to watch this video from Kara Conley about her exciting adventures and how you can help her be the hands and feet of Jesus! Contact Kara at kara.conley@focus.org or 262-339-8607 https://youtu.be/cu4MhkrOcNQ

10-Day Pilgrimage to Oberammergau & Shrines of the Alps Featuring the 2022 Passion Play | September 11–20, 2022 Led by Fr. Nathan Reesman

Children are invited to attend one of our week-long fun, interactive Spanish camps with a certified and qualified teacher. Basic Spanish reading, writing, conversation skills and fun facts about Latin America will be taught. This is a great opportunity to give children a head start in learning a second language!

by Father Nathan Reesman

The City of West Bend Parishes will open weekday Masses to the public on the following schedule until further notice:    Monday at 8am:   Saint Frances Cabrini Tuesday at 6:15am:  Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Wednesday at 5:30pm:  Holy Angels Thursday at 6:15am:   Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Friday at 7am:  Holy Angels Saturday at 8am:  Saint Frances Cabrini

You are invited to pray the Sacred Heart Novena for 'Healing of our Country'!

by Father Nathan Reesman

Dear Friends of Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception and Saint Frances Cabrini Parishes: Those of you who watched or listened to any of my recorded homilies, especially during the Lenten season, heard me say early on that the world as we knew it before Covid 19 has passed away and that going forward all is going to be different.  I stated several times that God is making use of this situation to work on our hearts both as individuals and also as a world.  As we move into June, I still believe my earlier statements are accurate.  We now live, for a long time to come, in the world of Covid.  That will be true even if and when we do get a vaccine.  There is no such thing as a “reset” or “re-start” button on time and history.  No one goes back to where they were previously after passing through an event.  One emerges on the other side of it and is invited to consider what has been learned and what changed, or what needs to change, and one goes forward altered because of it. 

Dear Friends at Saint Frances Cabrini Parish and Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Parish: Praised be Jesus Christ! On the 24th of May, or the seventh Sunday in the Easter Season, in this part of the country we celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord.  One cannot overstate what a major turning point, or transitional experience this was in the lives of the earliest Christians.  The Lord Jesus had been present among them and had engaged them in one manner for several years, very much like any other ordinary person.  They had grown accustomed to it and had perhaps come to rely upon it as their relationship with him grew. 

Today we celebrate the Fourth Sunday of the Easter Season, wherein we find in the cycle of readings of the Lectionary for each year a Gospel passage from John Chapter 10 taken from the “Good Shepherd Discourse.”  Which means that for many years now this Sunday has been known as Good Shepherd Sunday, and as an opportunity for the Church to pray and reflect upon the call to priesthood in the Church.  It is in the DNA of the Church, one could say, to always have Christ acting in his role as the Good Shepherd, doing so through the Sacrament of Holy Orders.  Bishops exercise this role in the fullest sense, with Deacons and Priests also sharing this same role in different ways. 

Dear Friends at Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Parish and Saint Frances Cabrini Parish:  Praised be Jesus Christ! “Shelter in Place” continues.   One thing I have noticed as these weeks of radically adjusted lifestyles have dragged along for all of us is that, for me anyway, all the days of the week run together.  Much of the time I am not really able to tell in an instant if I am making my way through a Tuesday, a Friday, etc, etc.  When so many of our activities that typically revolve around consistent scheduled events are removed or canceled, indeed it makes it difficult to mark time. 

Dear Friends:   Praised be Jesus Christ! Repair work has been progressing on the Saint Frances Cabrini campus in the past few weeks.  Maintenance staff are considered essential workers under the State shut down provisions, the campus is free of activity at the moment which offers a rare opportunity to move quickly on some projects, and we did have some monies set aside for this work heading into our current situation of limited operations. 

Dear Friends at Saint Frances Cabrini Parish and Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Parish:  Praised be Jesus Christ! A Blessed and Joyous Easter to all of you! We are of course all very accustomed to typical Easter routines and rituals that are painfully and strangely absent this year.  There is sadness in this fact that one cannot help but acknowledge, even on what could be called the birthday of joy itself.  How does one make sense of it all?

Dear parishioners at saint Frances Cabrini and Immaculate Conception parishes, I hope and pray these lines find you well, considering what our country and indeed our world are going through these days as we face together the challenges of the current pandemic.

Dear Friends at Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Parish and Saint Frances Cabrini Parish:  Praised be Jesus Christ! Today is Palm Sunday, even though we are not in church to celebrate it.  Today, perhaps more than any other day so far of our virus-induced purgatory, the irony of this whole situation seems especially thick.  

Dear Friends at Saint Frances Cabrini Parish and Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Parish:   Praised be Jesus Christ!  Several of you have raised concerns with me in recent days about your personal level of discomfort with the exchange of the sign of peace at Mass, and also with receiving the Precious Blood from the Communion chalices due to heightened public sensitivity right now over the Coronavirus. 

Many of you took part in the book study I led late last spring of the classic work of literature Brave New World, during which I reiterated my long-standing thesis that we are indeed living in the book.  Brave New World has again been on my mind these days, most specifically the parts of the story that deal with the drug soma.  If you are not familiar, in Huxley’s fictional, futuristic society, soma is a narcotic that is dispensed almost like cheap candy to the entire population so that people can use it to check out of reality.  No one is ever supposed to feel sad in the brave new world, or feel any pain; they are to be as much as possible in an ongoing state of elation, or simple numbness about life.  Soma is the ticket into the dizzy buzz of indifference.  If one takes a large dose of it, one actually goes to sleep for a couple of days, dreaming of bliss.  It is given by the government in Huxley’s book as a way to keep the masses calm and happy, and almost no one has any qualms about downing it often.  One is considered odd if one does not do so.