padrewarren on June 24th, 2009

About six weeks ago we held a Movie Night at St. Luke’s featuring the documentary film Young@Heart. The film is the story about a community chorus made up of seniors (age 70+) from Northampton, MA.  It’s a delight and you should put it on your Netflix queue. In addition to its entertainment value, it seems [...]

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padrewarren on June 10th, 2009

Today we remember in the Common of Lesser Feasts and Fasts Ephrem of Edessa (died 373). Ephrem was a deacon of the church who was instrumental in the spread of the Gospel in Aramaic (Jesus’ native tongue) in the 4th Century.  Ephrem was a man of letters.  He wrote commentaries, poetry, homilies and hymns.  He [...]

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Is the final question in this video the one that the Church should be dealing with most? Thanks to my colleague Rich Simpson for sending the video link and the provocative question?? How does the message of the Gospel compete with all the other demands that a massively transitional world throws at us?  How do [...]

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padrewarren on February 4th, 2009

Many of you (if there are many of you) will know that I am more than a bit of a Technology Jones.  I Twitter.  I’m on Facebook.  I blog, I podcast (ok, sort of).  One of the reasons behind this is I love gadgets.  I like my phone.  I’m fond of my MacBook.  Some folks [...]

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padrewarren on January 22nd, 2009

I have purposely given myself a few days to process the spectacle that was President Obama’s inauguration. It seems to me it would be easy to point out what was dissonant for me.  I will say this however.  I was told by my liturgy professor that when doing either a wedding or a funeral where [...]

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