It was just a couple months before I began serving here at Christ & St. Luke’s that Russia launched their full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And so, from the time I arrived here as your priest we have been witness to war. A little more than 18 months after that, on...
Together for Kenya is working to bring healthcare to Kenyan children through WeCare. In 2024 Together for Kenya began the WeCare program with the challenge of providing medical care are services to needy children in the Kawaida Kenya area. In...
This Sunday begins the holiest week in the life of the Church. It is a time when we are drawn into the drama of Jesus’ final days with liturgies that are as participatory as they are profound. Together we will experience some of those touchstone moments that help us...
Since 2024 Together for Kenya has helped to initiate and support a “Special Needs Education” classroom at Kawaida Primary School. Donations of classroom tables, chairs and renovations provided for the needs of over 25 children with disabilities as severe autism, down...
"Are we there yet?" That ubiquitous phrase uttered by children and adults when on a car ride to anywhere. Going to visit the beloved grandparents? Going to the grocery store? The number of times this is queried is contingent on many variables, like the length of trip...
When you are tempted to allow yourself to be swallowed up by darkness this season, in whatever form it may come to you, let the image of the Advent wreath shine in your mind.
On Sunday, November 3, at 5:30 p.m., we will observe the Feast of All Souls’ with an extraordinary musical work, Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, sung by our choir in the context of a Eucharist service. In the modern church, this feast day is often combined with All Saints’...
And so, it arrives. The battle lines are drawn. The yard signs are planted. The pundits have exhausted every angle of analysis and argument. And for all the ink spilled and money spent, the polls are stuck in a dead heat. Nov. 5 looms like a storm cloud on the...
Fr. Vince Connery unravels the mystery around the life of St. Francis of Assisi, his path from wealth to humility and the founding of a new religious order.
Gun violence is inherently unjust and unpeaceful. The structures that perpetuate the problem of gun violence in America are unjust and unpeaceful. Our inaction over gun violence is unjust and unpeaceful.
If you’re going to put your priest through a crash-course in construction management for three years, you’re going to have to suffer some theological reflections on the experience. So here are just a few of the many things that struck me, while overseeing this...
Growing up in Louisiana, I was surrounded by water: two blocks to the bayou, another half block to the river, and pools in almost all my friends’ backyards. I think I was about six years old when my dad gave me the sage advice of “don’t drown.” It was hollered half in...
In Africa about 85 million people live with disabilities. During our April 2024 Kenya Mission Trip, we met and were touched by a disabled child, Caroline. This 16 year old was born with Spina Bifida. With the help and encouragement of Community Healthcare Workers and...
Despite abandonment and chronic malnutrition Mary (age 5) and Margaret (age 4} have found hope in the village of Kawaida, Kenya. Through the intervention of Jane, Community Health Worker, and Together for Kenya, these two children are now in a safe transforming...
In May, Together for Kenya committed to providing OPD medical care to children attending Kawaida Primary Schools. Over 1,000 students will now be eligible to obtain diagnostic care and treatment at Nazareth Hospital. Most recently Joseph, an 11 year old in Class six,...
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