padrewarren on March 29th, 2007

Dear St. Luke’s Community, This coming Sunday we will gather and celebrate the Liturgy of the Palms. We will recite the Hosannas to Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem proclaiming his greatness and then by week’s end we will join in the chorus of ‘Crucify Him’ with an angry crowd bent on avoiding conflict with the ruling [...]

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padrewarren on March 15th, 2007

Dear St. Luke’s Community, Experts say that it takes 21 days of consistent practice to develop a new habit. We have passed the halfway mark in our sojourn through the 40 days of Lent and so might be expecting some new habits to have broken out and perhaps some old ones to have evaporated. I [...]

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padrewarren on March 8th, 2007

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen–US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 – ) Dear St. Luke’s Community, Think what you will of Woody Allen from a personal or artistic standpoint, but this little nugget is at the heart of being able “to do the work you have given us to do, [...]

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Dear St. Luke’s Community, Over the course of the past two weeks I have seen the signs of spring mixed in most strikingly with the realities of the winter in which we find ourselves. On Shrove Tuesday, I noticed nearly a dozen robins bouncing around on the ground outside the Parish Hall. It may not [...]

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