LIVE ON IN MY LOVE ~ About This Blog

A month after Fr. Lenny Zamborsky’s death on June 11, 2015, a group of his friends and former parishioners met to comfort each other and share memories of this very special man.  Shared remembrances poured forth – of baptisms where babies were immersed but never cried, of Holy Thursday services ending with Taize-infused processions and prayer, of a holy process of grieving the closing of St. Louis Church in Cleveland Heights, OH, in 2010, and many more touching – and sometimes funny -- experiences. Individual recollections of Fr. Lenny’s kindness and understanding in times of personal difficulty also emerged. 

Many of us at that meeting recalled that he had often talked about writing a book to gather lessons he wanted to share with his friends, and that is how the idea for this blog was eventually conceived.  As the writing group discussed possible sources of content, we recalled that some bound books of St. Louis bulletins had been saved – somewhere – when the parish closed.  

Some excellent sleuthing led to the discovery of the books at the Zamborsky family vacation home in Rock Creek, OH.  We decided to begin with a modest goal – to produce a collection of Lenten reflections for 2016 that would be based on the Sunday scripture readings for Cycle C and Fr. Lenny’s pastor columns in the four years of “found” bulletin books – 1996, 1999, 2005, and 2006.

Former parishioners of Fr. Lenny’s parishes, Sr. Marie Manning, Karen Kilbane, Nancy Seeger, Kathy Hazelton (St. Louis) and Beth Greisl (St. Margaret Mary, South Euclid) were the principal writers.  Aggy Nagy helped develop the concept of a Lenten booklet, and Maria Hernandez, working in Boston, provided musical inspiration for our meetings and reviewed our drafts (both Aggy and Maria were St. Louis parishioners).  Nancy Seeger, our blog administrator, is posting the reflections, week by week, throughout Lent.

Please use this blog to create an online community of faith by sharing some of your reflections in the comments section on each entry. As we all enter our first Lenten season in many years without Fr. Lenny among us, we hope that these reflections will help keep him – and the Lord whose death and Resurrection redeem us – present in our lives. May we all hear God’s word with new meaning this year. 

As we at St. Louis told Fr. Lenny at the last Mass before our closing Mass, “You have been the best of shepherds, and your guidance will sustain us as our paths diverge.  We know that God blesses you as you go on to shepherd others.  We will miss you and will keep you in our prayers.“